Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933368551 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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You will love his riffs of everything hypocritical and everything cool in today's world. "His charisma stems from his courage." -- Cornel West"The best book I read in prison." -- Tupac Shakur"Wimsatt is known as one of the original `hip hop journalists.' he is engaging, experimental, and youthful. He's one of those white guys who `get it' and connect to African American culture without being cloying or patronizing." -- Great Books for High School Kids: A Teacher's Guide to Books That Can Change Teens' Lives by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford (Beacon, 2004)"One of the first and most eloquent articulations of the politics and worldview of what would later be termed the Hip Hop Generation." -- AlterNet
try it, you'll like it If you know nothing about hip hop, if you're white, if you don't live in the big city (like me), this is a good book to read to find out more about the other side from a point of view that is neither condescending and fearful nor filled with undue awe. It deals with the past, present, and hopeful future of hip ho. Bomb your mind frame Owen Terranceclass This book is more than Hip Hop story's to brag to your friends about. Bomb the suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt is a book breaking boundries in the way white kids like me think about hip hop. I feel that if you have any interest in Hip Hop at all, this book is a perfect way to investigate your curiosity. Wimsatt . Bomb your mind frame This book is more than Hip Hop story's to brag to your friends about. Bomb the suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt is a book breaking boundries in the way white kids like me think about hip hop. I feel that if you have any interest in Hip Hop at all, this book is a perfect way to investigate your curiosity. Wimsatt
Taking on a broad range of topics, including suburban sprawl, racial identity, and youth activism, Wimsatt (a graffiti artist himself) uses a kaleidoscopic approach that combines stories, cartoons, interviews, disses, parodies, and original research to challenge the suburban mindset wherever it’s found: suburbs and corporate headquarters, inner cities and housing projects, even in hip-hop itself. Funny, provocative, and painfully honest, Bomb the Suburbs encourages readers to expand their social boundaries and explore the vibrant, chaotic world that exists beyond their comfort zones.. But to say that the book deals only with taggers and hip-hop is selling it short. Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the burbs? That’s the question posed by William Upski Wimsatt in his seminal foray into the world o