Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

by Danyel Smith, Jeff Chang, Adam Mansbach, et al.

Book Overview

It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and transformative arts movements of the past two decades. American Book Award-winning journalist Jeff Chang, author of the acclaimed Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, assembles some of the most innovative and provocative voices in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465009093
• ISBN13: 9780465009091
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Total Chaos

Great book. Everything you would want in an academic book. Highly recommend it to your friends

The anthology includes interviews, first-person experience and analysis

Most books on hip hop fall into the music category: not so TOTAL CHAOS: THE ART AND AESTHETICS OF HIP-HOP, compiled and edited by Jeff Chang whose contributors informatively and thoughtful consider the evolution, presence, and impact of hip-hop as a cultural expression and social commentary. From its commercial world to its cultural and artistic roots, TOTAL CHAOS offers students of sociology an excellent survey that runs the gamut from gender issues to artistic conflicts within the hiphop environment. The anthology includes interviews, first-person experience and analysis yet is lively enough for the general-interest library, as well.