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Welcome 2 Houston : hip hop heritage in Hustle Town / Langston Collin Wilkins.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African American music in global perspectivePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0252054520
  • 9780252054525
Other title:
  • Welcome to Houston
  • Hip hop heritage in Hustle Town
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Welcome 2 HoustonDDC classification:
  • 782.42164909764/1411 23/eng/20221014
LOC classification:
  • ML3531 .W548 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
If You Go Down to Houston -- Everybody Inherits the Hood -- Still Tippin' -- Gotta Come Down, Gotta Rep the Hood -- Turnin' Headz -- One City under God.
Summary: "Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an ethnography that explores how the interaction between artists, audiences, music, and place create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways. Street-based musicians, avant-garde underground rappers, and Christian hip hop artists offer candid views of the scene while Wilkins delves into related aspects like slab, the area's hip hop-related car culture. What emerges is an incisive portrait of dynamic reciprocal process where an artist, having identified with and embodied a social space, reproduces that space in a performance even as the performance reconstructs the social space. A vivid journey through a southern hip hop bastion, Welcome 2 Houston offers an insider's look at a unique musical culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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If You Go Down to Houston -- Everybody Inherits the Hood -- Still Tippin' -- Gotta Come Down, Gotta Rep the Hood -- Turnin' Headz -- One City under God.

"Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an ethnography that explores how the interaction between artists, audiences, music, and place create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways. Street-based musicians, avant-garde underground rappers, and Christian hip hop artists offer candid views of the scene while Wilkins delves into related aspects like slab, the area's hip hop-related car culture. What emerges is an incisive portrait of dynamic reciprocal process where an artist, having identified with and embodied a social space, reproduces that space in a performance even as the performance reconstructs the social space. A vivid journey through a southern hip hop bastion, Welcome 2 Houston offers an insider's look at a unique musical culture"-- Provided by publisher.

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