Signifying Rappers

Warum Rap, den Sie hassen, nicht Ihren Vorstellungen entspricht, sondern scheißinteressant ist und wenn anstößig, dann bei dem, was heute so abgeht, von nützlicher Anstößigkeit

Edición de la obra Signifying Rappers

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?