Book Bingo NW 2023: Hip Hop
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Hip hop. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. (Created May 2023)
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Go Ahead in the Rain
Memoir meets cultural criticism in this bittersweet appreciation of hip-hop visionaries A Tribe Called Quest. Nonfiction.
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Emerald Street
In Emerald Street, Daudi Abe chronicles the development of Seattle hip hop from its earliest days, drawing on interviews with artists and journalists to trace how the elements of hip hop--rapping, DJing, breaking, and graffiti--flourished in the Seattle scene. Nonfiction.
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The Come up
Firsthand accounts from more than 300 interviewees provide a vivid picture of how the sound of hip-hop changes with the times and regions in Abrams's (All the Pieces Matter) essential oral history of the genre. Nonfiction
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A 2005 classic charting hip-hop’s rise to global prominence—while navigating the entanglements of race, class, politics, and poetics that lie at its heart—gets a long-overdue redux. Nonfiction.
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Dilla Time
Charnas's intricate biography chronicles the life of producer J Dilla (1974–2006), born James DeWitt Yancey. Charnas covers his subject's early life, his unparalleled genius on the drum machine, and his evolution into the solo artist J Dilla. Nonfiction.
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Queen of Urban Prophecy
When she is chosen to headline her record label's first-ever all-female national tour, Deza, a young female rap superstar, goes up against brutal industry misogyny and corporate big money to claim respect for herself-and for everyone and everything she believes in. Fiction.
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Vagablonde
In Dorn’s pulse-quickening debut novel, an LA lawyer–turned-rapper finds herself thrust into the spotlight and its attendant chaos. Fiction.
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Jay-Z
In this astute cultural biography, Dyson analyzes the impact of Jay-Z through his music—from his hard-knock life as a drug dealer from Brooklyn, to his becoming a billionaire rapper and husband of megastar Beyoncé. Nonfiction.
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From the Streets of Shaolin
Music journalist Fernando meticulously recounts the career of legendary hip-hop supergroup Wu-Tang Clan (WTC) in this sprawling biography. Nonfiction.
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Ode to Hip-hop
Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded, controversial, and iconic hip-hop albums! Nonfiction.
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