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Traces the changing sounds of race across some of the best-known rap songs of the past thirty-five years, combining song-level analysis with historical contextualization to show how these representations of identity depend on specific artistic decisions, such as those related to how producers make beats.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Sounding Race in Rap Songs PART I. STYLISTIC CHANGE AND RACIAL FORMATION IN RAP'S FIRST DECADE 1. "Rapper's Delight": From Genre-less to New Genre 2. "Rebel Without a Pause": Public Enemy Revolutionizes the Break PART II. REARTICULATING RACE IN THE NEOLIBERAL NINETIES 3. "Let Me Ride": Gangsta Rap's Drive into the Popular Mainstream 4. "My Name Is": Signifying Whiteness, Rearticulating Race Conclusion: Sounding Race in the Twenty-First Century Notes Discography Filmography Bibliography Index

Sounding Race in Rap Songs

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 7 March 2015
      ISBN-13 9780520283992
      978-0520283992
      ISBN-10 0520283996
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces the changing sounds of race across some of the best-known rap songs of the past thirty-five years, combining song-level analysis with historical contextualization to show how these representations of identity depend on specific artistic decisions, such as those related to how producers make beats.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: Sounding Race in Rap Songs PART I. STYLISTIC CHANGE AND RACIAL FORMATION IN RAP'S FIRST DECADE 1. "Rapper's Delight": From Genre-less to New Genre 2. "Rebel Without a Pause": Public Enemy Revolutionizes the Break PART II. REARTICULATING RACE IN THE NEOLIBERAL NINETIES 3. "Let Me Ride": Gangsta Rap's Drive into the Popular Mainstream 4. "My Name Is": Signifying Whiteness, Rearticulating Race Conclusion: Sounding Race in the Twenty-First Century Notes Discography Filmography Bibliography Index

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