Total chaos : the art and aesthetics of hip-hop /

The author of the award-winning Can't Stop, Won't Stop assembles the most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop to assess the future of the most important cultural movement of our time.

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Other Authors: Chang, Jeff
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : BasicCivitas Books, ©2006.
Series:African American music reference.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : hip-hop arts : our expanding universe / Jeff Chang
  • pt. 1. Roots : perspectives on hip-hop history
  • 1. Dreams of a final theory / Harry Allen
  • 2. Nommo / Anthony "Amde" Hamilton
  • 3. (Yet another) Letter to a young poet / Marc Bamuthi Joseph
  • 4. Physical graffiti : a history of hip-hop dance / Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon
  • 5. The art of battling : an interview with Zulu King Alien Ness / Joe Schloss
  • 6. Got next : a roundtable on identity and aesthetics after multiculturalism / Greg Tate, Vijay Prashad, Marc Anthony Neal, Brian Cross
  • pt. 2. Flipping the script : beyond the four elements
  • 7. The pure movement and the crooked line : an interview with Rennie Harris / Jeff Chang
  • 8. Found in translation : the emergence of hip-hop theatre / Eisa Davis
  • 9. From the dope spot to Broadway theater : a roundtable on hip-hop theatre, dance, and performance / Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Kamilah Fores, Traci Bartlow, Javier Reyes
  • 10. On lit hop / Adam Mansbach
  • 11. Who shot ya : a history of hip-hop photography / Bill Adler
  • 12. Words and images : a roundtable on hip-hop design / Cey Adams, Brent Rollins, Sacha Jenkins
  • 13. Between the studio and the street : hip-hop in the postmillennial visual arts : a roundtable / curated by Lydia Yee, with Nadine Robinson, Samford Biggers, Luis Gispert, Jackie Salloum
  • 14. The city in public versus private : through a scanner darkly / Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky
  • pt. 3. The real : identity in flux
  • 15. Trapped in between the lines : the aesthetics of hip-hop journalism / Oliver Wang
  • 16. L-vis is a pioneer ; or, legacy : the VH1 special / Kevin Coval
  • 17. Burn rubber on plastic bubbles : "gangsta limpin" and the art of Dave Funkenklein / retreaded by Dave Tompkins
  • 18. Black talk and hot sex : why "street lit" is literature / Danyel Smith
  • 19. It's all one : a conversation between Juba Kalamka and Tim'm West
  • 20. Homothugdragsterism / Joël Barraquiel Tan
  • 21. how I found my inner DJ / robert karimi
  • 22. A brand new feminism : a conversation between Joan Morgan and Mark Anthony Neal
  • pt. 4. Worldwide : hip-hop arts beyond borders
  • 23. brooklyn / Suheir Hammad
  • 24. Falling for Bob Marley / Staceyann Chin
  • 25. Inventos hip-hop : an interview with Eli Jacobs-Fauntauzzi / Jeff Chang
  • 26. Cape Flats alchemy : hip-hop arts in South Africa / Shaheen Ariefdien, Nazli Abrahams
  • 27. Afro-blue : incanting Yoruba gods in hip-hop's isms / Raquel Cepeda
  • 28. Native tongues : hip-hop's global indigenous movement : a roundtable / curated by Cristina Verán, with Darryl "DLT" Thompson, Litefoot, Grant Leigh Saunders, Mohammed Yunus Rafiq, JAAS
  • pt. 5. Next elements : hip-hop arts and future aesthetics
  • 29. Untitled / Walidah Imarisha
  • 30. Theatres crossing the divide : a baby boomer's defense of hip-hop aesthetics / Roberta Uno
  • 31. Put your camera where my eyes can see : hip-hop video, film, and documentary : a roundtable / curated by Eric K. Arnold, with Rachel Raimist, Kevin Epps, Michael Wanguhu
  • 32. Codes and the B-boy's stigmata : an interview DOZE / Jeff Chang
  • 33. Revolution : an interview with Brett Cook-Dizney / Jeff Chang
  • 34. Scarcity and exploitation : the myth and reality of the struggling hip-hop artist / Rha Goddess
  • 35. Towards a hip-hop aesthetic : a manifesto for the hip-hop arts movement / Danny Hoch.