Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture

by H. Samy Alim

Book Overview

Complementing a burgeoning area of interest and academic study, Roc the Mic Right explores the central role of language within the Hip Hop Nation (HHN). With its status convincingly argued as the best means by which to read Hip Hop culture, H. Samy Alim then focuses on discursive practices, such as narrative sequencing and ciphers, or lyrical circles of rhymers. Often a marginalized phenomenon, the complexity and creativity of Hip Hop lyrical production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415358787
• ISBN13: 9780415358781
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"