Thug Life : Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-hop, Paperback by Jeffries, ...

Description: Thug Life : Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-hop, Paperback by Jeffries, Michael, ISBN 0226395855, ISBN-13 9780226395852, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970's. Now it is a global phenomenon and, in the United States, a successful corporate enterprise predominantly controlled and consumed by whites while the most prominent performers are black. How does this shift in racial dynamics affect our understanding of contemporary hip-hop, especially when the music perpetuates stereotypes of black men? Do black listeners interpret hip-hop differently from white fans? Michael P. Jeffries answers these questions by interviewing everyday people. Instead of turning to performers or media critics, Thug Life focuses on the music's fansùyoung men, both black and whiteùresulting in an account that avoids romanticism and offers an unbiased examination of how hip-hop works in people's daily lives. As Jeffries weaves the fans' voices together with his own analysis, we come to understand hip-hop as a tool listeners use to make sense of themselves and society as well as a rich, self-contained world containing politics and pleasure, virtue and vice.

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