E-audiobook
Signifying rappers
Record details
- ISBN: 9781478951179 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 1478951176 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital. - Publisher: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : AudioGO, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robert Petkoff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on publisher supplied image on web page (viewed July 17, 2013) |
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| Subject: | Rap (Music) -- History and criticism MUSIC / Printed Music / General |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? Signifying Rappers is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends.
