Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: American Made Music Series
The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: American Made Music Series
ISBN: 978-1-60473-229-0
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
Let the World Listen Right draws from classic studies of the blues as well as extensive ethnographic work to document the ""changing same"" of Delta music making. From the neighborhood juke joints of the contemporary Delta to the international hip-hop stage, this study traces the musical networks that join the region's African American communities to both traditional forms and new global styles.
The book features the words and describes performances of contemporary artists, including blues musicians, gospel singers, radio and club DJs, barroom toast-tellers, preachers, poets, and a spectrum of Delta hip-hop artists. Contemporary Delta hip-hop artists Jerome ""TopNotch the Villain"" Williams, Kimyata ""Yata"" Dear, and DA F.A.M. have contributed freestyle poetry, extensive interview materials, and their own commentaries. The book focuses particularly on the biography of TopNotch, whose hip-hop poetics emerge from a lifetime of schoolyard dozens and training in the gospel church.