[PDF] Droppin Science eBook

Author : William Eric Perkins
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781566393621

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Rap and hip hop, the music and culture rooted in African American urban life, bloomed in the late 1970s on the streets and in the playgrounds of New York City. This critical collection serves as a historical guide to rap and hip hop from its beginnings to the evolution of its many forms and frequent controversies, including violence and misogyny. These wide-ranging essays discuss white crossover, women in rap, gangsta rap, message rap, raunch rap, Latino rap, black nationalism, and other elements of rap and hip hop culture like dance and fashion. An extensive bibliography and pictorial profiles by Ernie Pannicolli enhance this collection that brings together the foremost experts on the pop culture explosion of rap and hip hop. Author note: William Eric Perkins is a Faculty Fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois House at the University of Pennsylvania, and an Adjunct Professor of Communications at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Author : Denise L. McIver
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780609807293

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Foreword by KRS-One Life's Little Instruction Book for the hip-hop generation, 'Droppin' Science' is a collection of quotations, life lessons and words of wisdom from the most influential voices in today's urban music scene. For the millions of teenagers and twentysomethings who idolise such musicians as Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Lil' Kim, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, Macy Grey, Common, Mary J. Blige, Wyclef Jean, Jay-Z and more, this book offers advice that is straight up and backed by serious street cred.

Author : Peter Moormann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2012-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3531189131

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This anthology examines the various facets of video game music. Contributors from the fields of science and practice document its historical development, discuss the music’s composition techniques, interactivity and function as well as attending to its performative aspects.

Author : Paul Butler
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1595585109

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Radical ideas for changing the justice system, rooted in the real-life experiences of those in overpoliced communities, from the acclaimed former federal prosecutor and author of Chokehold Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't commit. In a book Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree calls “a must-read,” Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system—as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police—and explores what “doing the right thing” means in a corrupt system. No matter how powerless those caught up in the web of the law may feel, there is a chance to regain agency, argues Butler. Through groundbreaking and sometimes controversial methods—jury nullification (voting “not guilty” in drug cases as a form of protest), just saying “no” when the police request your permission to search, and refusing to work inside the system as a snitch or a prosecutor—ordinary people can tip the system towards actual justice. Let’s Get Free is an evocative, compelling look at the steps we can collectively take to reform our broken system.

Author : Christopher Emdin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9087909888

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Christopher Emdin is an assistant professor of science education and director of secondary school initiatives at the Urban Science Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in urban education with a concentration in mathematics, science and technology; a master’s degree in natural sciences; and a bachelor’s degree in physical anthropology, biology, and chemistry.

Author : Paul C. Jasen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 150133591X

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Low End Theory probes the much-mythologized field of bass and low-frequency sound. It begins in music but quickly moves far beyond, following vibratory phenomena across time, disciplines and disparate cultural spheres (including hauntings, laboratories, organ workshops, burial mounds, sound art, studios, dancefloors, infrasonic anomalies, and a global mystery called The Hum). Low End Theory asks what it is about bass that has fascinated us for so long and made it such a busy site of bio-technological experimentation, driving developments in science, technology, the arts, and religious culture. The guiding question is not so much what we make of bass, but what it makes of us: how does it undulate and unsettle; how does it incite; how does it draw bodily thought into new equations with itself and its surroundings? Low End Theory is the first book to survey this sonorous terrain and devise a conceptual language proper to it. With its focus on sound's structuring agency and the multi-sensory aspects of sonic experience, it stands to make a transformative contribution to the study of music and sound, while pushing scholarship on affect, materiality, and the senses into fertile new territory. Through energetic and creative prose, Low End Theory works to put thought in touch with the vibratory encounter as no scholarly book has done before. For more information, visit: http://www.lowendtheorybook.com/

Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136783172

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Traces the continuum of hardcore that runs from the most machinized forms of house music through British and European rave styles like bleep-and-bass, breakbeat house, Belgian hardcore, jungle, gabba, speed garage, and big beat.

Author : Darko Suvin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
ISBN : 9783039114030

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Darko Suvin explores utopian horizons in fiction & utopian/dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s, focusing in the United States & United Kingdom, but drawing also on French, German & Russian sources.

Author : Eileen M. Hayes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252035143

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Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation. She argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period. Hayes also offers sage perspectives on black women's involvement in the women's music festival scene, the ramifications of their performances as drag kings in those environments, and the challenges and joys of a black lesbian retreat based on the feminist festival model. With acuity and candor, longtime feminist activist Hayes elucidates why this music scene matters. Veteran vocalist, percussionist, producer, and cultural historian Linda Tillery provides a foreword.