Listen to Hip Hop!: Exploring a Musical Genre
Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of hip-hop music for scholars and fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums.

Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre explores non-rap hip hop music, and as such it serves as a compliment to Listen to Rap! Exploring a Musical Genre (Greenwood Press, Anthony J. Fonseca, 2019), which discussed at length 50 must-hear rap artists, albums, and songs. This book aims to provide a close listening/reading of a diverse set of songs and lyrics by a variety of artists who represent different styles outside of rap music.

Most entries focus on specific songs, carefully analyzing and deconstructing musical elements, discussing their sound, and paying close attention to instrumentation and production values—including sampling, a staple of rap and an element used in some hip hop dance songs. Though some of the artists included may be normally associated with other musical genres and use hip hop elements sparingly, those in this book have achieved iconic status. Finally, sections on the background and history of hip hop, hip hop's impact on popular culture, and the legacy of hip hop provide context through which readers can approach the entries.

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Listen to Hip Hop!: Exploring a Musical Genre
Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of hip-hop music for scholars and fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums.

Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre explores non-rap hip hop music, and as such it serves as a compliment to Listen to Rap! Exploring a Musical Genre (Greenwood Press, Anthony J. Fonseca, 2019), which discussed at length 50 must-hear rap artists, albums, and songs. This book aims to provide a close listening/reading of a diverse set of songs and lyrics by a variety of artists who represent different styles outside of rap music.

Most entries focus on specific songs, carefully analyzing and deconstructing musical elements, discussing their sound, and paying close attention to instrumentation and production values—including sampling, a staple of rap and an element used in some hip hop dance songs. Though some of the artists included may be normally associated with other musical genres and use hip hop elements sparingly, those in this book have achieved iconic status. Finally, sections on the background and history of hip hop, hip hop's impact on popular culture, and the legacy of hip hop provide context through which readers can approach the entries.

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Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of hip-hop music for scholars and fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums.

Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre explores non-rap hip hop music, and as such it serves as a compliment to Listen to Rap! Exploring a Musical Genre (Greenwood Press, Anthony J. Fonseca, 2019), which discussed at length 50 must-hear rap artists, albums, and songs. This book aims to provide a close listening/reading of a diverse set of songs and lyrics by a variety of artists who represent different styles outside of rap music.

Most entries focus on specific songs, carefully analyzing and deconstructing musical elements, discussing their sound, and paying close attention to instrumentation and production values—including sampling, a staple of rap and an element used in some hip hop dance songs. Though some of the artists included may be normally associated with other musical genres and use hip hop elements sparingly, those in this book have achieved iconic status. Finally, sections on the background and history of hip hop, hip hop's impact on popular culture, and the legacy of hip hop provide context through which readers can approach the entries.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440874871
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/09/2021
Series: Exploring Musical Genres
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Anthony J. Fonseca is library director and adjunct associate professor of humanities at Elms College, where he teaches rock-and-roll history, rap music, and rap lyrics as text.

Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith is a visiting lecturer/associate professor in the music department and College of Graduate and Continuing Education at Westfield State University.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

1 Background 1

2 Must-Hear Music 13

Aaliyah (featuring DMX) and Rihanna (featuring Jay-Z): "Come Back in One Piece" and "Umbrella" 13

Paula Abdul and Tony! Toni! Tone!: "Straight Up" and "Feels Good" 19

Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force (Music by Planet Patrol): "Planet Rock" 24

Afroman: "Because I Got High" 30

Akon: "Beautiful" 33

Die Antwoord: "Ugly Boy" 36

A$AP Rocky: "Sundress" and "Kids Turned Out Fine" 39

Babyface: "It's No Crime" and "There She Goes" 43

Beyoncé: "Run the World (Girls)" 46

Black Eyed Peas: "Boom Boom Pow" 51

Boyz II Men (featuring Michael Bivins): "Motownphiliy" 54

Brett Domino (The Brett Domino Trio): "Pinocchio" 57

BTS: "Idol" 61

Cee-Lo Green (featuring Timbaland): Til Be Around" 65

Childish Gambino: "This Is America" 68

Chinese Man: "I've Got That Tune" 73

George Clinton: "Atomic Dog" 76

DJ APS: "Tabba" 81

Donatan/Cleo: "My Slowianie" 85

Fifth Harmony (featuring Kid Ink): "Worth It" 89

Dominic Fike: "3 Nights" 93

Fugees: "Nappy Heads" (remix) 97

Gorillaz: "Clint Eastwood" 101

Great Big Sea: "Beggar Dude" 104

Hamilton (Cast): "Ten Duel Commandments" 106

Herbie Hancock (featuring DXT): "Rockit" 109

Janet Jackson: "Rhythm Nation" 114

Jessie J (featuring Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj): "Bang Bang" 119

Mateo Kingman: "Sendero Del Monte" 122

K'Naan: "Take a Minute" (album version) 126

Little Big: "Skibidi" 130

M.I.A.: "Paper Planes" 132

M.I.A.: "P.O.W.A." 136

Mix Master Mike (featuring DJ QBert): "Cosmic Assassins" 141

Nicki Minaj: "Roman Holiday" 145

NKOTBSB: "Don't Turn Out the Lights (D.T.O.T.L.)" 149

Frank Ocean: "Swim Good" 152

Plastician: "Windwalker" and "Tainted" 157

Psy: "Gangnam Style" (album and music video single) 161

Punjabi by Nature (featuring Offlicence and Charanjit Chani) and Yo Yo Honey Singh (featuring TDO, Singhsta, and Neha Kakkar): "Jaan Punjabi" and "Makhna" 165

Mark Ronson (featuring Bruno Mars): "Uptown Funk!" 170

Shaggy (featuring Rikrok): "It Wasn't Me" 175

Sukshinder Shinda (featuring Cheshire Cat and Tenashus): "Balle" 179

Ana Tijoux: "1977" 183

Timbaland (featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake): "Give It to Me" and "Carry Out" 187

Justin Timberlake (featuring Timbaland) and La Materialista: "Sexyback" and "Los Pantaloncitos" 191

Time Zone (featuring John Lydon): "World Destruction" 197

Tricky: "Ghetto Stars" 203

Tumi and Chinese Man (featuring Taiwan MC): "Better That Way" 206

Pharrell Williams: "Freedom" 210

3 Impact on Popular Culture 215

4 Legacy 231

Further Reading 245

Index 253

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