Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture

by Yvonne Bynoe Knowles and Yvonne Bynoe

Book Overview

Hip Hop music is comprised of several art forms: 1) MC-ing or rapping 2)B-boying or breakdancing 3)Deejaying (music) and 4) Graffiti art (visual art). This encyclopedia examines all four elements of Hip Hop Culture, providing students, scholars, and music fans with a complete history of the thirty-year music genre. Tracing its early roots from black DJs talking over music in the 1960s, the B-boy dancers in the 1970s, and the scratching and sampling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313330581
• ISBN13: 9780313330582
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 10.2"