9780812695892-0812695895-Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 16)

Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 16)

ISBN-13: 9780812695892
ISBN-10: 0812695895
Author: Tommie Shelby, Derrick Darby
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Open Court
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780812695892
ISBN-10: 0812695895
Author: Tommie Shelby, Derrick Darby
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Open Court
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 16) (ISBN-13: 9780812695892 and ISBN-10: 0812695895), written by authors Tommie Shelby, Derrick Darby, was published by Open Court in 2005. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Musical Genres (Aesthetics, Philosophy, Ethics & Morality, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 16) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Musical Genres books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.43.

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Is there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil' Kim? Is hip-hop culture a "black" thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz and for Dave Chappelle to call everybody bitches? These witty, provocative essays ponder these and other thorny questions, linking the searing cultural issues implicit and often explicit in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. The book shows that rap classics by Lauryn Hill, OutKast, and the Notorious B.I.G. can help uncover the meanings of love articulated in Plato's Symposium; that Rakim, 2Pac, and Nas can shed light on the conception of God's essence expressed in St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica; and explores the connection between Run-D.M.C., Snoop Dogg, and Hegel. Hip-Hop and Philosophy proves that rhyme and reason, far from being incompatible, can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries.

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