Book, Noise of Black: Rap and Black Culture In the United States Contemp[LS]

One of the greatest phenomena in contemporary popular music, hip-hop was born in the black ghettos of New York, combining rhythm, beat, poetry, dance and street art with the population's protest and revolt against racism, state violence and precariousness, on the one hand, but also with sexuality, feminism, wealth and power, on the other.. It spread throughout the United States and then the world, becoming a large-scale cultural and youth movement.. Noise in Black, by Tricia Rose, is the seminal book that inaugurated a whole new field of studies related to hip-hop. BACK COVER Considered a classic, in Barulho de Preto: Rap and Black Culture in Contemporary America, sociologist Tricia Rose conducts an in-depth and critical analysis of rap and the emergence of hip-hop culture. Names like Kool Herc, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Salt, Harmony, Ice-T, Basquiat, Crazy Legs, Run DMC, LL Cool J emerge in a transdisciplinary perspective of the urban culture of the last decades and inspire both those who seek to understand the complexity of hip-hop and those who helped to build it.. Focused on the epicenter of consecration of this cultural form, the United States, Rose, however, provides clues to understand the “noise” of this social and artistic phenomenon in other parts of the world. As she herself says, “I am convinced that this project – which grounds black cultural codes and signs in black culture and examines the multivocal languages of rap as the black noise of the late 20th century – will promote the development of more projects with global approaches.”. HIP-HOP IN PERSPECTIVE COLLECTION The Hip-Hop in Perspective collection seeks to introduce hip-hop studies in Brazil through works from and about different countries, which analyze the complex and contradictory urban youth culture that has repositioned the place of global peripheries and their actors COVER Image of the cover: from photo by Lisa Leone. Sampling and the figure of the DJ have become one of the characteristic features of hip-hop.