The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation

by Reiland Rabaka

Book Overview

The Hip Hop Movement offers a critical theory and alternative history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots in the popular musics and popular cultures of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to rap,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739182439
• ISBN13: 9780739182437
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"