Book, Barulho de Preto: Rap and Black Culture in the United States Contemp [LS]

One of the greatest phenomena in contemporary popular music, hip-hop was born within the black ghettos of New York, articulating rhythm, beat, poetry, dance and street art with the population's protest and revolt against racism, state violence and precariousness, on the one hand, but also with sexuality, feminism, wealth and power, on the other. It spread throughout the United States and then around the world, becoming a large-scale cultural and youth movement. Noise in Black, by Tricia Rose, is the seminal book that inaugurated a whole new field of study linked to hip-hop. FOURTH COVER Considered a classic, in Noise in Black: Rap and Black Culture in the Contemporary United States, sociologist Tricia Rose carries out an in-depth and critical analysis of rap and the emergence of hip-hop culture. Names such as Kool Herc, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Salt, Harmony, Ice-T, Basquiat, Crazy Legs, Run DMC, LL Cool J emerge in a transdisciplinary perspective of urban culture of recent decades and inspire those who seek to know the complexity of hip-hop as those who helped build it. Focused on the epicenter of consecration of this cultural form, the United States, Rose, however, gives clues to understand the “noise” of this social and artistic phenomenon in other parts of the world. As she herself says, “I am convinced that this project – which grounds black cultural signs and codes in black culture and examines the multivocal languages ​​of rap as the black noise of the late 20th century – will promote the development of more projects with global approaches”. HIP-HOP IN PERSPECTIVE COLLECTION The Hip-Hop in Perspective collection seeks to insert hip-hop studies in Brazil through works from and about different countries, which analyze the complex and contradictory young urban culture that repositioned the place of global peripheries and of its actors FROM THE COVER Cover image: from a photo by Lisa Leone. Sampling and the DJ have become one of the hallmarks of hip-hop.