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Is Hip Hop Dead?: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Most Wanted Music

1 review
Mickey Hess

Praeger Publishers, 2007

Sure to be a popular library lend.
IS HIP HOP DEAD? THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF AMERICA'S MOST WANTED MUSIC considers hip hop artists, the history of the genre, and the ongoing dialogue between commercialism versus culture which has kept hip hop alive and on the cutting edge of American youth culture. Chapters survey its history, roots, and the major hip hop groups' contributions over the decades with an eye to revealing the ...

Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory

3 reviews

Garrett County Press, 2008

Funny and Insightful
Technically a memoir, but also a look at jobs, decisions, dreams, influences and how to find meaning. The period this book covers is approximately 2000-2002, where Mickey finds himself in his post-college days with part-time teaching jobs, but also random gigs as an ice cream truck driver, stand-up comedian, and arcade attendant. He pokes fun at the colleges he works at, just as he does the ...

Icons of Hip Hop [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture (Greenwood Icons)

1 review

Greenwood Press, 2007

Many a college-level collection strong in music studies will find it attracts both researchers and leisure browsers.
ICONS OF HIP HOP: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MOVEMENT, MUSIC AND CULTURE is an excellent 2-book encyclopedic reference offering in-depth biographies - often a number of pages long - about major figures in hiphop culture. From influences and achievements to lasting legacies left by each, ICONS OF HIP HOP promises to be an excellent documentation of the movement as well as the music, and is a pick for ...