Five Percenter Rap: God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission

by Felicia M. Miyakawa

Book Overview

"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful attention to ideology, history, and verbal and musical rhetoric. Miyakawa's approach is at once comprehensive and streamlined, making for an especially effective presentation of the issues as well as a good read." --Albin Zak, author of The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records

"Miyakaya provides a great deal of information and analysis that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253217636
• ISBN13: 9780253217639
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher