The City of Hip - Hop New York City, The Bronx, and a Peace Meeting

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The City of HiHop New York City, The Bronx, and a Peace Meeting | 55.65 MB

Title: The City of HiHop New York City, The Bronx, and a Peace Meeting
Author: Rob Swift, Mowatt, Rasul A.
Category: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Civil, Theory, African-American Studies, United States, Public Policy, Reference, Human Geography, Popular, Social Psychology, Psychology, Modern, Technology, Rap, Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings, Planning, Real Estate, 20th Century, Political Science, History, Hospitality, Tourism & Travel, Business & Finance, Ethnomusicology, Infrastructure, Organizational Behavior, Nature, Urban, City Planning & Urban Development, Popular Culture, Music, Public Affairs & Administration, Military
Language: English | 192 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781040270066


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The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geographies of New York City and its boroughs. This book argues it was the political forces of the 1970s combined with the economic forces of free market capitalism and privatization of public services, neoliberalism, and the social forces of the deindustrialization of major cities and displacement of populations that led the cultural creation of the "Boogie Down" Bronx. The City of Hip-Hop shows how Hip-Hop is a socio-political reaction that created an alternate reality with a geographic specificity, and it is the interplay with those forces that nurtured it to become the culture force that we know it today in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Berlin, São Paulo, Tokyo, Washington D.C., Seattle, Paris, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta,...