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Language Arts Unit: A Rap Textbook

Language Arts Unit: A Rap Textbook

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0578229625
ISBN13: 9780578229621
Publisher: Black Market Poetry
Published: Jan 16 2020
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Language Arts Unit: A Rap Textbook is an exploration of rap as theory and praxis, race as form and content, music as social mobilizer and opiate. In a winding, discursive prefatory note Rhys Langston (Podell) utilizes a biting, absurdist humor to seriously appraise the power of words, music, and all manner of extra-lingual connotations in the age of rapid-transit information technologies. As the written half of a multimedia project, what follows are the lyrics from his long play album, written as poems with the clever enjambment of his characteristically idiosyncratic wordplay. [Book includes a URL to download the full album]

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