New Castle County Libraries Readers’ Advisory - Summer 2023 Picks

Hip Hop & Other Tunes - A Special Edition of the Readers' Advisory Committee Staff Picks

Updated July 12, 2023
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Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation
Chang, Jeff
Paper Book
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, Hip Hop has been a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era transformed by deindustrialisation and globalisation, Hip Hop became a job-making engine and forever transformed politics and culture. Based on more than a decade of...
The come up : an oral history of the rise of hip-hop
Abrams, Jonathan P. D.
Paper Book
The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture--from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire ...
Major labels : a history of popular music in seven genres
Sanneh, Kelefa
Paper Book
One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 * Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year "One of the best books of its kind in decades." --The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular...
On the come up
Thomas, Angie
Paper Book
The YA love letter to hip-hop--streaming on Paramount+ September 23, 2022! Starring Sanaa Lathan (in her directorial debut), Jamila C. Gray, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Lil Yachty, Method Man, Mike Epps, GaTa (Davionte Ganter), Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Titus Makin Jr.,...

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