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Book Synopsis Mary J. Blige (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) by : Diane Bailey
Download or read book Mary J. Blige (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) written by Diane Bailey and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary J. Blige has a style all her own. When it comes to fashion, her music, or just the way she lives her life, Mary has never been afraid to just be herself. To date, Mary J. Blige has sold over 40 million records and won 8 Grammy awards. Dubbed the ''Queen of Hip-hop Soul,'' Mary and her music continue to inspire fans of all types.
Download or read book Mary J. Blige written by Diane Bailey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary J. Blige has a style all her own. When it comes to fashion, her music, or just the way she lives her life, Mary has never been afraid to just be herself. To date, Mary J. Blige has sold over 40 million records and won 8 of Grammy awards. Dubbed the "Queen of Hip-hop Soul," Mary and her music continue to inspire fans of all types.
Download or read book Mary J. Blige written by Sofia Maimone and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary J. Blige has had to travel a long, hard road to become the famous hip-hop artist she is today. Readers will see the way she changed from an angry teenager to a woman who gets stronger with every album—all while sharing her strength with other women. Her talent and passion have taken her from singing backup for others to having three albums in a row reach the top spot on the charts.
Book Synopsis Kanye West (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) by : Laura La Bella
Download or read book Kanye West (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) written by Laura La Bella and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, Kanye West Breaks the mold of the hip-hop superstar. Initially a much sought-after producer of other artists' albums (Jay-Z, Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Mobb Deep, Cam'ron, John Legend), West had great difficulty getting a record contract for his own work. His father was a Black Panther-turned photojournalist and born again Christian counselor, and his mother was a university English professor. West was thought to lack the ''street cred'' necessary to be a serious and popular rapper. Yet once given his chance, West electrified the world of hip-hop, releasing two albums in two years, both of which went triple platinum. Outspoken, egotistical, unconventional, inventive, and ingenious, Kanye West is one of the hip-hop world's most fascinating and unpredictable artists.
Book Synopsis Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens by : Linda B. Alexander
Download or read book Multicultural Programs for Tweens and Teens written by Linda B. Alexander and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the practical programs laid out here, young adult librarians in public libraries, school librarians, and adult and young adult services staff can easily explore many diverse cultures.
Download or read book Mary J. Blige written by Diane Bailey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the life and career of rap musician Mary J. Blige.
Download or read book Sean Combs written by Susan M. Traugh and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative volume profiles the life and career of hip-hop artist Sean Combs. No stranger to rebranding. Combs is notorious for marking each new phase of his career with a new name. "Puff," "Puffy," "Puff Daddy," "Sean John," and “P.Diddy” are just a few examples. Chapters cover his early years, his rise to hip-hop stardom, and his contributions to the genre.
Download or read book Nicki Minaj written by Joanne Mattern and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicki Minaj was a little girl with big dreams. As a child she wanted to be a soap opera star in order to buy her mother a beautiful house far away from the violence and drugs that plagued their neighborhood. Instead, Minaj began creating music. After years of struggle, Minaj began to get noticed by some of the brightest stars in hip-hop and soon an amazing career was born. Minaj combined her love of music, fashion, and business to build a fascinating career and prove to everyone that girls can succeed in anything if they just try hard enough. This book features quotes, photos, and information to bring Nicki Minaj and her incredible story to life.
Book Synopsis Real Love, No Drama by : Danny Alexander
Download or read book Real Love, No Drama written by Danny Alexander and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop music fans of all ages and races. Blige has sold over fifty million albums, won numerous Grammys, and even played at multiple White House events, as well as the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Displaying astonishing range and versatility, she has recorded everything from Broadway standards to Led Zeppelin anthems and worked with some of popular music’s greatest artists—Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Whitney Houston, Sting, U2, and Beyoncé, among them. Real Love, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige tells the story of one of the most important artists in pop music history. Danny Alexander follows the whole arc of Blige’s career, from her first album, which heralded the birth of “hip hop soul,” to her critically praised 2014 album, The London Sessions. He highlights the fact that Blige was part of the historically unprecedented movement of black women onto pop radio and explores how she and other women took control of their careers and used their music to give voice to women’s (and men’s) everyday struggles and dreams. This book adds immensely to the story of both black women artists and artists rooted in hip hop and pays tribute to a musician who, by expanding her reach and asking tough questions about how music can and should evolve, has proven herself an artistic visionary.
Book Synopsis Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes] by : Laura L. Finley
Download or read book Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes] written by Laura L. Finley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.
Book Synopsis The Hip Hop Movement by : Reiland Rabaka
Download or read book The Hip Hop Movement written by Reiland Rabaka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hip Hop Movement offers a critical theory and alternative history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots in the popular musics and popular cultures of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. Connecting classic rhythm & blues and rock & roll to the Civil Rights Movement, and classic soul and funk to the Black Power Movement, The Hip Hop Movement explores what each of these musics and movements contributed to rap, neo-soul, hip hop culture, and the broader Hip Hop Movement. Ultimately, this book’s remixes (as opposed to chapters) reveal that black popular music and black popular culture have always been more than merely “popular music” and “popular culture” in the conventional sense and reflect a broader social, political, and cultural movement. With this in mind, sociologist and musicologist Reiland Rabaka critically reinterprets rap and neo-soul as popular expressions of the politics, social visions, and cultural values of a contemporary multi-issue movement: the Hip Hop Movement. Rabaka argues that rap music, hip hop culture, and the Hip Hop Movement are as deserving of critical scholarly inquiry as previous black popular musics, such as the spirituals, blues, ragtime, jazz, rhythm & blues, rock & roll, soul, and funk, and previous black popular movements, such as the Black Women’s Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Black Arts Movement, and Black Women’s Liberation Movement. This volume, equal parts alternative history of hip hop and critical theory of hip hop, challenges those scholars, critics, and fans of hip hop who lopsidedly over-focus on commercial rap, pop rap, and gangsta rap while failing to acknowledge that there are more than three dozen genres of rap music and many other socially and politically progressive forms of hip hop culture beyond DJing, MCing, rapping, beat-making, break-dancing, and graffiti-writing.
Book Synopsis Ludacris (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) by : Philip Wolny
Download or read book Ludacris (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) written by Philip Wolny and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning to rap at the age of 9, Ludacris (born Christopher Brian Bridges) drew on a wide range of musical influences supplied by his father, who steeped his son in many genres of popular music. Soon he was recording boisterous and madcap rap albums, each of which went double or triple platinum. Ludacris has also appeared in several high profile, popular, and critically successful films. Despite run-ins with media giants Oprah Winfrey and Bill O-Reilly over the content of his lyrics, Ludacris is generally regarded as a genial and light-hearted rap superstar, one whose range of talents are only beginning to be revealed to an increasingly enthusiastic public.
Download or read book My Voice written by Angie Martinez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback—Angie Martinez, the “Voice of New York,” candidly recounts the story of her rise to become an internationally celebrated hip hop radio icon. In her current reign at Power 105.1 and for nearly two decades at New York’s Hot 97, Angie Martinez has had one of the highest rated radio shows in the country. After working her way up as an intern, she burst on the scene as a young female jock whose on-air “Battle of the Beats” segment broke records and became a platform for emerging artists like a young Jay Z. Angie quickly became known for intimate, high-profile interviews, mediating feuds between artists, and taking on the most controversial issues in hip hop. At age twenty-five, at the height of the East Coast/West Coast rap war, Angie was summoned by Tupac Shakur for what would be his last no-holds-barred interview—which has never aired in its entirety and which she’s never discussed in detail—until now. Angie shares stories from behind-the-scenes of her most controversial conversations, from onetime presidential hopeful Barack Obama to superstars like Mary J. Blige and Chris Brown, and describes her emotional, bittersweet final days at Hot 97 and the highly publicized move to Power 105.1. She also opens up about her personal life—from her roots in Washington Heights and her formative years being raised by a single mom in Brooklyn to exploring the lessons that shaped her into the woman she is today. From the Puerto Rican Day Parade to the White House—Angie is universally recognized as a powerful voice in the Latino and hip hop communities. My Voice gives an inside look at New York City’s one-of-a-kind urban radio culture, the changing faces of hip hop music, and Angie’s rise to become the Voice of New York.
Book Synopsis Jay-Z (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) by : Bridget Heos
Download or read book Jay-Z (the Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) written by Bridget Heos and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay-Z is more than a successful hip-hop artist. He is a businessman. He's sold over 33 million albums, is part owner of the New Jersey Nets, and is a co-founder of the Roc-A-Fella Records. Growing up in the projects in Brooklyn, Jay-Z overcame family hardship and adversity to become one of the most successful hip-hop artists of all time....
Book Synopsis Missy Elliot (Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) by : Bethany Bezdecheck
Download or read book Missy Elliot (Library of Hip-Hop Biographies) (Large Print 16pt) written by Bethany Bezdecheck and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five-time Grammy Award winner Missy Elliott creates something fresh and original with every new album. She has a natural confidence and a style all her own. Growing up in Virginia, Missy wrote an performed songs all the time for anybody who would listen. Since her first album in 1997, Missy has had 6 platinum albums, a feat that has never been accomplished by any other female rapper. She is a record producer, clothing designer, and charity spokeswoman and has her own record label.
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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad Boy written by Ronin Ro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a tale of friendship, greed, and betrayal in the music industry—and a definitive history of America's biggest rap mogul. No one knows more about creating hits than Sean “Puffy” Combs. For years he virtually ran hip-hop. It seemed the perfect arrangement: “Puffy” provided the sounds and obsessive attention to detail while the Notorious B.I.G. promoted an image that kept rap fans happy. It should have lasted forever, but “Biggie” was murdered at the height of his career—and “Puffy”'s ascension to superstardom ushered in an age of disloyalty and deception that exploded into one of the greatest debacles in the history of the music industry. Through interviews with label insiders, grand jury testimony, and other sources, America's preeminent rap journalist Ronin Ro -reveals the true story of “Puffy” -addresses the larger issues that shaped the man and the industry -explains how Bad Boy both helped and destroyed hip-hop and R&B music -details why some artists “Puffy” created ultimately left his Bad Boy family in disgust. At once an intimate history and a portrait of an era, Bad Boy shows readers exactly how Combs lost his strangle-hold over the multibillion-dollar rap music industry. The story of Bad Boy Entertainment is the story of the American Dream, an up-close and personal account of the people, the money, the creative process that made it all come true, and the young mogul who caused the dream to fall apart. In this hip-hop tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, readers finally learn the story that Sean “Puffy” Combs does not want them to know.