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Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book XXL Mag written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. K. Collins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476752257
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Wide Open written by S. K. Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chelsea loves a good hustler, but things get complicated when she cheats on her boyfriend with his biggest rival in this shocking novel set in the mean streets of Washington, DC. Young, sexy, and happy to flaunt it, Chelsea always wins in her pursuit of money—but she also gets herself in deep trouble. When she attracts the interest of her boyfriend’s sworn childhood enemy, Rodney, Chelsea knows she’s playing with fire, but she can’t resist a baller like Rodney. Her double life doesn’t last long, and Chelsea soon realizes the consequences are much worse than she ever realized. Chelsea’s boyfriend, Zeek, lives a drama-free life. He’s always been a normal, respectful guy, despite living in one of the roughest neighborhoods in DC. But when Chelsea cheats on him, it breaks his heart and changes him for the worst. He decides that hustling is the only way to get respect, so he sets out into the tumultuous streets to get money by any means he can. Zeek’s quest becomes fueled by power, greed, and ultimately the love of a woman. Can Chelsea recapture Zeek’s broken heart before he fully enters a world where few survive? Or will she remain so self-absorbed in her pursuit of money that she ends up destroying herself in the process?
Author : Elwood Watson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645508X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen written by Elwood Watson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays ranging in topic from the films of Neil LaBute to the sexual politics of Major League Baseball, this diverse collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations, with essays covering, among other topics, the re-imagining of Asian American masculinity in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow and the ever-present image of black male buffoonery in the neo-minstrel performances of VH1's Flavor of Love. The book's second half explores the issue of contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity, with essays focusing on popular media representations of men in a variety of gendered roles, from homemakers and househusbands to valorous war heroes and athletic demigods.
Author : Michael Patrick Welch
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807170429
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book New Orleans written by Michael Patrick Welch and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Orleans: The Underground Guide shows visitors how to experience the Big Easy like a local, looking past staples like beignets and Bourbon Street to reveal a city bursting with contemporary and experimental art, genre-busting DJs, international cuisines, and even kid-friendly activities. This fully updated edition offers an expansive collection of alternative recommendations for exploring the city of Mardi Gras, brass bands, and weekly festivals. Featuring over two hundred new entries on local bands, rappers, restaurants with live music, galleries, and more, this guidebook takes readers on a one-of-a-kind journey through New Orleans, giving advice on everything from what thrift stores and bookshops to visit to what bands to catch in concert and what parades to attend. Lead author Michael Patrick Welch provides a detailed guide of the less traditional, more adventurous side of New Orleans, from bars that hold readings of poetry and erotic literature to costume shops that sell handmade masks, party supplies, and all the parade throws you can carry. Drawing on the wisdom of New Orleans celebrities, journalists, artists, and musicians from throughout the Crescent City, the fourth edition of New Orleans: The Underground Guide is an authentic and reliable resource for where locals listen to music, art hop, shop, eat, drink, and let loose.
Author : Joe Coscarelli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982107901
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Rap Capital written by Joe Coscarelli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “impassioned tribute” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli. From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music. But this flashy and fast-paced world is rarely seen below surface level as a collection not of superheroes and villains, cartoons and caricatures, but of flawed and inspired individuals all trying to get a piece of what everyone else seems to have. In artistic, commercial, and human terms, Atlanta rap represents the most consequential musical ecosystem of this century. Rap Capital tells the dramatic stories of the people who make it tick and the city that made them that way. The lives of the artists driving the culture, from megastars like Lil Baby and Migos to lesser-known local strivers like Lil Reek and Marlo, represent the modern American dream but also an American nightmare, as young Black men and women wrestle generational curses, crippled school systems, incarceration, and racism on the way to an improbably destination atop art and commerce. Across Atlanta, rap dreams power countless overlapping economies, but they’re also a gamble, one that could make a poor man rich or a poor man poorer, land someone in jail or keep them out of it. Drawing on years of reporting, more than a hundred interviews, dozens of hours in recording studios and on immersive ride-alongs, acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli weaves a cinematic tapestry of this singular American culture as it took over in the last decade, from the big names to the lesser-seen prospects, managers, grunt-workers, mothers, DJs, lawyers, and dealers that are equally important to the industry. The result is a deeply human, era-defining book that is “required reading for anyone who has ever wondered how, exactly, Atlanta hip-hop took over the world” (Kelefa Sanneh, author of Major Labels). Entertaining and profound, Rap Capital is an epic of art, money, race, class, and sometimes, salvation.
Author : Richard Thompson Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501180088
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Dress Codes written by Richard Thompson Ford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted
Author : Giuliana Monteverde
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661572X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Resist! written by Giuliana Monteverde and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resist! pays close attention to popular culture; it examines the political ramifications of Kanye West’s support of Donald Trump, the significance of Aaron Sorkin’s language to American political discourse, and the casting of female emotion as a political force in House of Cards and The Handmaid’s Tale. In doing so, the collection traverses the formal world of ‘the political’ as it relates to presidential elections and referenda, while emphasising the sociocultural and political significance of popular texts which have played a critical role in exploring, critiquing and shaping culture in the twenty first century. Popular culture is often considered trivial or irrelevant to more pressing political concerns, and celebrities are often reprimanded for their forays into the political sphere. Resist! pays close attention to texts that are too often excluded when we think about politics, and explores the cultural and political fall-out of a reality TV president and a divisive public vote on increasingly connected global audiences. In examining the cultural politics of popular media, this collection is inherently interdisciplinary, and the chapters utilise methods and analysis from a range of social science and humanities disciplines. Resist! is both creative and timely, and offers a crucial examination of a fascinating and frightening political and cultural moment.
Author : Jill C. Wheeler
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1532176066
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Travis Scott: Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Creator written by Jill C. Wheeler and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Travis Scott. Readers learn about Scott's early life, inspiration to pursue music, and successes as a hip-hop artist. With striking photographs and sidebars, the book also explores Scott's over-the-top tours and live shows and his relationship with Kylie Jenner. Features include a timeline, glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Law Journal Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry D. Barton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Law Journal Reports written by Henry D. Barton and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century American Musicians written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : America King
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557049482
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Hip Hop the last Religion written by America King and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodrigo Bascunan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368467
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Enter the Babylon System written by Rodrigo Bascunan and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation. The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of gang life on bullet-ridden US streets for the rising use of firearms in Canadian crime. Were these songs artful accounts of a terrible truth, or a self-fulfilling prophecy? Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce have interviewed many of the major players in the hip-hop world. As publishers of an award-winning magazine of urban culture, they’d watched rap music become a scapegoat for society’s much older and widely spread fascination with guns. What follows is their international adventure to deconstruct modern gun culture in all its manifestations. Bascunan and Pearce seek out hip-hop artists, illegal gun runners, firearms aficionados and manufacturers, museum curators, academics, politicians, video-game creators, activists, victims of gun violence and the family and friends left behind. Somewhere between Fast Food Nation, No Logo and a Michael Moore documentary, featuring sly sidebar material and original artwork, Enter the Babylon System is part outrageous journalistic pursuit and part passionate cri de coeur for sanity in the face of a society’s obsession.
Author : Thomas Madox
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England written by Thomas Madox and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabrina Strings
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080700863X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The End of Love written by Sabrina Strings and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Playboy to Jay-Z, the racial origins of toxic masculinity and its impact on women, especially Black and “insufficiently white” women More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out “situationships.” When these men deign to articulate what they are looking for in a steady partner, they’ll often rely on superficial norms of attractiveness rooted in whiteness and anti-Blackness. Connecting the past to the present, sociologist Sabrina Strings argues that following the Civil Rights movement and the integration of women during the Second Wave Feminist movement, men aimed to hold on to their power by withholding love and commitment, a basic tenet of white supremacy and male domination, that served to manipulate all women. From pornography to hip hop, women—especially Black and “insufficiently white” women—were presented as gold diggers, props for masturbation, and side-pieces. Using historical research, personal stories, and critical analysis, Strings argues that the result is fuccboism, the latest incarnation of toxic masculinity. This work shows that men are not innately “toxic.” Nor do they hate love, commitment, or sex. Instead, men across race have been working a new code to effectively deny loving partnerships to women who are not pliant, slim, and white as a new mode of male domination.
Author : Charlamagne Tha God
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982173815
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Get Honest or Die Lying written by Charlamagne Tha God and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Charlamagne Tha God, host of the morning radio phenomenon The Breakfast Club, and founder and CEO of iHeartRadio’s Black Effect Podcast Network, a rundown on how small talk from small minds have taken over our world, and the BIG conversations needed to climb our way back. For over a decade, Charlamagne Tha God has cohosted iHeartRadio’s nationally syndicated morning radio show The Breakfast Club and has proven his power as a culture mover and thought leader, by being his completely authentic self on-air. From his famous “You ain't black” moment with President Biden, to heartfelt chats with cultural icons like Sean “Jay-Z” Carter and Judy Blume, to viral classics with Kamala Harris and Soulja Boy, his incredible reach and impact on American culture continues to grow. In Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks, Charlamagne takes full command of his new perch, broadening his scope and embracing his life roles as a cultural curator, social commentator, job-creator, mental health advocate, and Girl Dad in ways we’ve never seen before. In his signature irreverent style, he looks at the world through his own lens, concluding that many of our divisions, our unhappiness, and our dissatisfactions stem from our failure to have meaningful conversations with each other. With lessons pulled from his past, and an eye on the future, Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks makes us laugh, cry, and think as Charlamagne shares his thoughts on growth, empowerment, and evolution in our fast-changing world. In short—it’s time to stop lying to each other, and ourselves. Fame, money, social media, politics, hip-hop culture, and fatherhood, he takes it all on here. This master of seeing through the BS even calls it on himself, as he delivers his most insightful and heartfelt work yet—his call to stop the insanity while we still can.
Author : Enrique Encabo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443885630
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Sound written by Enrique Encabo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a true technological revolution with a global impact upon all areas of society, from entertainment to education. Technology, changing and evolving at increasing speed, undoubtedly shapes ways of seeing the world, something which requires profound reflection in terms of how reality is understood. It is undeniable that in this audiovisual world music plays a leading and prominent role. This is particularly notable when considering the importance of music in relation to the way it is featured on mobile devices and as manifested in terms of other communication technologies, its impact on new narrative forms and the prominence of audiovisual fiction in advertising, and the new ways of creating, receiving and disseminating music on the Internet. This book is divided into two sections, “New Media, New Audiences” and “Music, Cinema and Audiovisual Practices: New Approaches”, and the sixteen essays brought together here are the work of an international group of scholars who deal with different geographical and cultural contexts. One of the highlights of this volume is its interdisciplinary re-reading of a complex phenomenon that is undoubtedly a fundamental part of contemporary culture. As such, this collection will be of particular interest to both scholars and non-specialist readers.
