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Beats and Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy : No Milk for the Foxes; Denmarked; High Rise Estate of Mind, PDF eBook

Beats and Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy : No Milk for the Foxes; Denmarked; High Rise Estate of Mind PDF

Edited by Dr Katie (University of the Arts London, UK) Beswick

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This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically acclaimed theatre-maker's work. The three plays use hip hop to highlight the inequalities produced by the UK's class system, and weave lyricism, musicality and dialogue to offer authentic accounts of inner-city life written by working-class Londoners.

The plays are accompanied by two introductory essays: The first gives a specific social and historical context that helps readers make sense of the plays, the second positions hip hop as a contemporary literary form and offers some ways to read hip hop texts as literature. The collection also includes a foreword by leading hip hop theatre practitioner Jonzi D, interviews with the Beats & Elements company, and a glossary of words for students and international readers.

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