Dated Emcees (City Lights/Sister Spit)
By Chinaka Hodge.
Description
Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hopand its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content in Dated Emcees as she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's best known orators, characters, archetypes and songs, creating a new and inventive narrative about the music that shaped the craggy heart of a young woman poet, just as it also changed the global landscape of pop.Praise for Dated Emcees:"In the old tellings hip-hop was a woman, a certain kindone needing, even begging to be saved. In Dated Emcees, Chin...
ISBN(s)
0872867021, 9780872867024
