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    612-822-4611

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Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

Caplan, David

Paperback

Poetry CriticismHip Hop

ISBN10: 0195337131
ISBN13: 9780195337136
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 10 2014
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry -- and everyday life.

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