Tha Global Cipha: Hip Hop Culture and Consciousness - Softcover
Tha Global Cipha is the first book about Hip Hop Culture to present in-depth conversations with artists from around the world, representing the many regional scenes of the U.S. (from the East Coast to the Bay Area to the Dirty South), France, the Caribbean (from Jamaica to Puerto Rico), and Africa (from Algeria to Senegal), as well as diverse forms of street musics, such as Reggaeton, Reggae/Dancehall, Shaabi and Rai. Conversations with Jay-Z, Mos Def, Eve, Sean Paul, Young Jeezy, Foxy Brown, Booba, Buju Banton, Ivy Queen, Afrika Bambaataa, Sonia Sanchez, DJ Kool Herc, Oxmo Puccino, Trina, Cornbread, Mannie Fresh, Intik, Beanie Sigel, Cheb Khaled, Pitbull, Manu Key, Tego Calderon and many others, demonstrate these artists to be critical interpreters of their own culture and of the world around them. Here is a book that centers the usually marginalized voices of Hip Hop communities, presenting a remarkably refreshing and revealing view of Hip Hop Culture from the inside-out... Enter tha global cipha!
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About the Author:
James G. Spady is the author of the first and only trilogy of books on Hip Hop Music and Culture: Nation Conscious Rap: The Hip Hop Vision (1991), Twisted Tales in the Hip Hop Streets of Philly (1995) and Street Conscious Rap (1999), and editor of 360 Degreez of Sonia Sanchez: Hip Hop, Narrativity, Iqhawe and Public Spaces of Being (2000). His works have appeared in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, radio, television and film and he is the recipient of many awards, including The American Book Award and the National Newspaper Publishers Association's Meritorious Award.
H. Samy Alim is an Assistant Professor in UCLA's Department of Anthropology and is author of Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture (Routledge, 2006), You Know My Steez: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Styleshifting in a Black American Speech Community (Duke, 2004), and co-author of Street Conscious Rap (Black History Museum, 1999).
Samir Meghelli is a Richard Hofstadter Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University (New York), and his work has been published in The Black Arts Quarterly, Proud Flesh, and Newsletter of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He has organized public history programs throughout the New York, Philadelphia, and Paris (France) areas.
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H. Samy Alim is an Assistant Professor in UCLA's Department of Anthropology and is author of Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture (Routledge, 2006), You Know My Steez: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Styleshifting in a Black American Speech Community (Duke, 2004), and co-author of Street Conscious Rap (Black History Museum, 1999).
Samir Meghelli is a Richard Hofstadter Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University (New York), and his work has been published in The Black Arts Quarterly, Proud Flesh, and Newsletter of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He has organized public history programs throughout the New York, Philadelphia, and Paris (France) areas.
[An] essential resource and reference for serious hip-hop scholars. --Jeff Chang, American Book Award-winning author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Y'all documenting this culture, our stories, our thoughts, and it's so important because nobody else is doing that... That's what's up!! --Xzibit, Hip Hop artist and actor
A documentary-style page turner... You can call it the [Hip Hop] movement's Bible -- an Encyclopedia Britannica even. --Philadelphia City Paper
Y'all documenting this culture, our stories, our thoughts, and it's so important because nobody else is doing that... That's what's up!! --Xzibit, Hip Hop artist and actor
A documentary-style page turner... You can call it the [Hip Hop] movement's Bible -- an Encyclopedia Britannica even. --Philadelphia City Paper
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- PublisherBlack History Museum Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0967174112
- ISBN 13 9780967174112
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages704
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