Welcome 2 Houston

Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town

Langston Collin Wilkins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04515-8 (ISBN)

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Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston’s hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways. Street-based musicians, avant-garde underground rappers, and Christian artists offer candid views of the scene while Wilkins delves into related aspects like slab, the area’s hip hop-related car culture. What emerges is a portrait of a dynamic reciprocal process where an artist, having identified with and embodied a social space, reproduces that space in a performance even as the performance reconstructs the social space. A vivid journey through a southern hip hop bastion, Welcome 2 Houston offers readers an inside look at a unique musical culture.

Langston Collin Wilkins is an assistant professor of folklore and African American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Acknowledgments Introduction

Chapter 1. If You Go Down to Houston

Chapter 2. Everybody Inherits the Hood

Chapter 3. Still Tippin

Chapter 4. Gotta Come Down, Gotta Rep the Hood

Chapter 5. TURNIN HEADZ

Chapter 6. One City Under God

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	African Amer Music in Global Perspective
Zusatzinfo	16 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-04515-7 / 0252045157
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04515-8 / 9780252045158
Zustand	Neuware