Eric Reese: The History of Hip Hop

Cover: 9781925988963 | The History of Hip Hop | Worldwide | Eric Reese | Taschenbuch | 2025

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The spray cans hissed. The turntables screamed. And suddenly, hip hop wasn't borrowed-it was reborn.

This unflinching global tour smashes the myth of hip hop's "American-ness," exposing how Tokyo's B-boys, Lagos's rhyme assassins, and Marseille's graffiti guerrillas hijacked the culture and made it ferociously their own. Through cinematic storytelling, meet South African poets who weaponized verses against apartheid, Brazilian funkeros merging beats with samba's soul, and Korean auteurs blending traditional pansori with trap's swagger.

More than a music history-this is a map of how the marginalized seized a movement. With gritty detail and prophetic insight, it charts hip hop's evolution from Bronx blocks to planetary phenomenon, proving its true power lies not in beats or rhymes, but in its infinite reinvention. The world didn't adapt hip hop; it baptized it in fire. Prepare to rethink everything you know about culture's most unstoppable force.

Über den Autor

Eric Reese is a Philadelphia-born author and hip hop historian whose eight-volume series The History of Hip Hop chronicles rap music history from its earliest roots to the global era. His "Rapper's Delight" essay is archived at the Library of Congress, and he appeared as a guest speaker on BBC Radio 2's Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary special with DJ Trevor Nelson. In Volume 7: Worldwide, Reese takes hip hop global: the Caribbean roots of Jamaican sound systems and King Tubby dub, Kool Herc on the Kingston to Bronx journey, and the local scenes that made the culture their own - Tokyo B-boys, Lagos rhyme assassins, Marseille graffiti guerrillas, South African poets, dancehall and reggaeton.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	The History of Hip Hop
ISBN-13:	9781925988963
ISBN-10:	1925988961
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Reese, Eric
Hersteller:	Eric Reese The History of Hip Hop
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Eric Reese
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,344 kg