I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture
Author(s): Andrew J. Rausch (Author)
Publisher: Scarecrow Press (UK)
Publication Date: 16 April 2011
Language: English
Print length: 230 pages
ISBN-10: 0810877910
ISBN-13: 9780810877917
Book Description
What is Hip-Hop? In order to answer this question, author Andrew J. Rausch interviewed 24 individuals whose creative expressions are intimately associated with the world of hip-hop music and culture. Those interviewed include emcees, DJs, producers, graffiti artists, poets, and journalists. Topics of these conversations cover the careers of each of these people and their contributions/affiliations with hip-hop, as well as their views on different trends within the music.
Intended as a celebration of hip-hop music and culture, this collection of interviews ranges from the up-and-coming (Akrobatik, Rob Kelly) to the legendary (Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane). Also interviewed are Eric B., Black Sheep Dres, Chip Fu, Michael Cirelli, Daddy-O, DJ JS-1, dream hampton, Kokane, Kool Keith, Kool Rock Ski, Keith Murray, 9th Wonder, Paradime, R.A. the Rugged Man, Sadat X, Shock G, Special Ed, Spinderella, Sticky Fingaz, and Young MC.
Because many of these artists worked and performed in the so-called golden age of hip-hop, they offer insights on the merits and problems of what hip-hop has grown into today. From their candid observations, the reader will understand how each of these men and women have contributed to the culture and how each, in his or her own way, can rightly answer I
AM hip-hop.
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About the Author
Andrew J. Rausch is a film journalist, celebrity interviewer, and the author of many books about cinema and popular culture. Representative titles include Turning Points in Film History (Citadel/Kensington, 2004), Fifty Filmmakers: Conversations with Directors from Roger Avary to Steven Zaillian (McFarland, 2008), The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro (Scarecrow Press, 2010), Making Movies with Orson Welles: A Memoir (w/ Gary Graver, Scarecrow Press, 2011), The Cinematic Misadventures of Ed Wood (w/ Charles Pratt, Bear Manor, 2015), and My Best Friend’s Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film (Bear Manor Media, 2019). Rausch is also an editor at Diabolique, a regular contributor to Shock Cinema, and writes a column for Screem.
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