Informationen zum Autor Nelson George, supervising producer and writer for the Netflix series "The Get Down," is an award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction. He has written for Playboy , Billboard , Esquire , the Village Voice , Essence , and many other national magazines, as well as writing and producing television programs and feature films. Klappentext From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media. Table of Contents Title Page Dedication Copyright Page Introduction chapter 1 - post-soul chapter 2 - hip hop wasn't just another date chapter 3 - gangstersreal and unreal chapter 4 - the i of me chapter 5 - black owned? chapter 8 - the permanent business chapter 7 - sample this chapter 8 - where my eyes can see chapter 9 - new jack swing to ghetto glamour chapter 10 - national music chapter 11 - the sound of philadelphiadunking chapter 12 - capitalist tool chapter 13 - too live chapter 14 - skills to pay the bills chapter 15 - funk the world chapter 16 - da joint! and beyond chapter 17 - we ain't goin' nowhere: twenty-first-century bling sources / further reading Acknowledgements index FOR MORE WORKS BY NELSON GEORGE, LOOK FOR THE FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS, LOOK FOR THE PENGUIN BOOKS HIP HOP AMERICA Nelson George is the author of ten nonfiction books on African-American culture and of four novels. He has received two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Grammy, and two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation for Hip Hop America and Elevating the Game. Hip Hop America and The Death of Rhythm & Blues were also finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for national magazines, including Playboy, Billboard, Esquire, Spin, Essence, and The Village Voice, and has written and produced several television programs as well as two feature films. His new film Everyday People recently premiered on HBO. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he still lives. for my family PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, II Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, 1998 Published in Penguin Books 1999 This edition published 2005 Copyright © Nelson George, 1998 All rights reserved George, Nelson. Hip hop America / by Nelson George. p. cm. Includes bibliographic references (p. ) and index eISBN : 978-1-101-00730-3 1. Rap (music)History and criticism. 2. Hip-hopUnited States. 3. Popular cultureUnited States. 4. Music and societyUnited Stat...

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Nelson George, supervising producer and writer for the Netflix series "The Get Down," is an award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction. He has written for Playboy, Billboard, Esquire, the Village Voice, Essence, and many other national magazines, as well as writing and producing television programs and feature films.

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From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

 

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright Page

Introduction

 

chapter 1 - post-soul

chapter 2 - hip hop wasn’t just another date

chapter 3 - gangsters—real and unreal

chapter 4 - the “i” of me

chapter 5 - black owned?

chapter 8 - the permanent business

chapter 7 - sample this

chapter 8 - where my eyes can see

chapter 9 - new jack swing to ghetto glamour

chapter 10 - national music

chapter 11 - the sound of philadelphia—dunking

chapter 12 - capitalist tool

chapter 13 - too live

chapter 14 - skills to pay the bills

chapter 15 - funk the world

chapter 16 - “da joint!” and beyond

chapter 17 - we ain’t goin’ nowhere: twenty-first-century bling

 

sources / further reading

Acknowledgements

index

FOR MORE WORKS BY NELSON GEORGE, LOOK FOR THE

FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS, LOOK FOR THE

PENGUIN BOOKS

HIP HOP AMERICA

 

Nelson George is the author of ten nonfiction books on African-American culture and of four novels. He has received two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Grammy, and two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation for Hip Hop America and Elevating the Game. Hip Hop America and The Death of Rhythm & Blues were also finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for national magazines, including Playboy, Billboard, Esquire, Spin, Essence, and The Village Voice, and has written and produced several television programs as well as two feature films. His new film Everyday People recently premiered on HBO. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he still lives.

for my family

PENGUIN BOOKS
Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A.
Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2
(a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)
Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England
Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd)
Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia
(a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, II Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi—110 017, India
Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand
(a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)
Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196,
South Africa

 

Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices:
80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England

 

First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, 1998
Published in Penguin Books 1999
This edition published 2005

 

 

Copyright © Nelson George, 1998 All rights reserved

 

George, Nelson.
Hip hop America / by Nelson George.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographic references (p. ) and index

eISBN : 978-1-101-00730-3

1. Rap (music)History and criticism. 2. Hip-hopUnited States. 3. Popular cultureUnited States. 4. Music and societyUnited States. I. Title.

ML3531.G46 1998
782.421649_dc21 98-23414

 

 

 

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introduction

WE WOULD LIKE TO LIVE AS WE ONCE LIVED, BUT HISTORY WILI NOT PERMIT IT.

 

—PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY NOVEMBER 1963  

 

 

 

IN THE ’30s, ON ANY BALMY SUMMER EVENING THROUGHOUT THE rural Sout…