From its beginnings in hip hop culture, the dense rhythms and aggressive
lyrics of rap music have made it a provocative fixture on the American
cultural landscape. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America,
Tricia Rose, described by the New York Times as a "hip hop theorist,"
takes a comprehensive look at the lyrics, music, cultures, themes, and
styles of this highly rhythmic, rhymed storytelling and grapples with
the most salient issues and debates that surround it.
Assistant
Professor of Africana Studies and History at New York University, Tricia
Rose sorts through rap's multiple voices by exploring its underlying
urban cultural politics, particularly the influential New York City rap
scene, and discusses rap as a unique musical form in which traditional
African-based oral traditions fuse with cutting-edge music technologies.
Next she takes up rap's racial politics, its sharp criticisms of the
police and the government, and the responses of those institutions.
Finally, she explores the complex sexual politics of rap, including
questions of misogyny, sexual domination, and female rappers' critiques
of men.
But these debates do not overshadow rappers' own words
and thoughts. Rose also closely examines the lyrics and videos for songs
by artists such as Public Enemy, KRS-One, Salt N' Pepa, MC Lyte, and L.
L. Cool J. and draws on candid interviews with Queen Latifah, music
producer Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, dancer Crazy Legs, and others to paint
the full range of rap's political and aesthetic spectrum. In the end,
Rose observes, rap music remains a vibrant force with its own aesthetic,
"a noisy and powerful element of contemporary American popular culture
which continues to draw a great deal of attention to itself."
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