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Communication Studies
Cultural Studies
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Hip-Hop and Communication
Hip-Hop and Legal Thought
Hip-Hop Culture
Hip-Hop Studies
Music and Social Movements
Music and Society
Popular Culture Studies
Popular Culture: Music and Performing Arts
Race and Ethnicity: African American Studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781440842221
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Nov 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
How has hip-hop influenced our culture beyond the most obvious ways (music and fashion)? Examples of the substantial power of hip-hop culture include influence on consumer buying habits—for example, Dr. Dre's Beats headphones; politics, seen in Barack Obama's election as the first "hip-hop president" and increased black political participation; and social movements such as various stop-the-violence movements and mobilization against police brutality and racism.
In Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture, author Nick Sciullo considers hip-hop's role in shaping a number of different aspects of modern culture ranging from law to communication and from business to English studies. Each chapter takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour of hip-hop's importance in various areas of culture with references to leading literature and music. Intended for scholars and students of hip-hop, race, music, and communication as well as a general audience, this appealing, accessible book will enable readers to understand why hip-hop is so important and see why hip-hop has such far-reaching influence.
Nick J. Sciullo, PhD, is an assistant professor of communications at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. He has been published in dozens of peer reviewed journals and law reviews on issues of rhetoric, race, class, and law. He has also spoken on hip-hop across the United States and Western Europe.
