Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture

This insightful analysis of the broad impact of hip-hop on popular culture examines the circulation of hip-hop through media, academia, business, law, and consumer culture to explain how hip-hop influences thought and action through our societal institutions. * Considers hip-hop across aspects of culture, recognizing hip-hop's pervasive influence on not only clothing styles, music, and brand consumption but also social movements, political activity, legal thought, and artistry * Presents evidence of how U.S. culture is strongly influenced by the main elements of hip-hop culture--emceeing, DJing, break dancing, and graffiti * Argues that hip-hop should be recognized both as an object of study and approach to studying popular culture * Supplies academically rigorous information and perspectives but is written for an educated general readership

• | Author: Nick J. Sciullo
• | Publisher: Praeger
• | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 136 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Music
• | ISBN-10: 1440842221
• | ISBN-13: 9781440842221