The History of Hip Hop : Worldwide
(2025)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Eric Reese, 2025
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9798349339493 MWT18281165, 18281165
LANGUAGE
English
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The spray cans hissed. The turntables screamed. And suddenly, hip hop wasn't borrowed-it was reborn. This unflinching global tour smashes the myth of hip hop's "American-ness," exposing how Tokyo's B-boys, Lagos's rhyme assassins, and Marseille's graffiti guerrillas hijacked the culture and made it ferociously their own. Through cinematic storytelling, meet South African poets who weaponized verses against apartheid, Brazilian funkeros merging beats with samba's soul, and Korean auteurs blending traditional pansori with trap's swagger. More than a music history-this is a map of how the marginalized seized a movement. With gritty detail and prophetic insight, it charts hip hop's evolution from Bronx blocks to planetary phenomenon, proving its true power lies not in beats or rhymes, but in its infinite reinvention. The world didn't adapt hip hop; it baptized it in fire. Prepare to rethink everything you know about culture's most unstoppable force

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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