Signifying Rappers
David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello · 2013
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About the book
Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised?
Book details
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books/Little, Brown
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 153
- ISBN
- 9780316225830
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