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The history of rap music
- Title
- The history of rap music / by Cookie Lommel.
- Author
- Lommel, Cookie.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Schomburg Children's Collection.
- Description
- 120 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Traces the development of rap music from origins in the hip hop of the 1970s through various controversies to its widespread popularity in the 1990s.
- Series Statement
- African-American achievers
- Subject
- Rap (Music) > History and criticism > Juvenile literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes discography (p. 114), bibliographical references (p. 115) and index.
- Contents
- The language of music -- The birth of contemporary rap music -- Early promoters and successes -- Rap artists take center stage -- Wordsmiths of the 1990s -- Politics of an art form -- Hip-hop and the media -- Hip-hop empires -- Mainstream impact.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-42
- ISBN
- 0791058204
- 0791058212 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 00022274
- OCLC
- 43567514
- Author
- Lommel, Cookie.
- Title
- The history of rap music / by Cookie Lommel.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2001.
- Series
- African-American achievers
- Bibliography
- Includes discography (p. 114), bibliographical references (p. 115) and index.
- Added Author
- Schomburg Children's Collection.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-42