Welcome 2 Houston : Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town Paperback / softback
by Langston Collin Wilkins
Part of the African Amer Music in Global Perspective series
Paperback / softback
Description
Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's hip hop culture.
Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways.
Street-based musicians, avant-garde underground rappers, and Christian artists offer candid views of the scene while Wilkins delves into related aspects like slab, the area's hip hop-related car culture.
What emerges is a portrait of a dynamic reciprocal process where an artist, having identified with and embodied a social space, reproduces that space in a performance even as the performance reconstructs the social space. A vivid journey through a southern hip hop bastion, Welcome 2 Houston offers readers an inside look at a unique musical culture.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 16 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2023
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- ISBN:9780252087295
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 16 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252087295
