
The History of Hip Hop
Worldwide
Eric Reese(Author)
Eric Reese (Publisher)
Published on 15. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-925988-96-3 (ISBN)
Description
The spray cans hissed. The turntables screamed. And suddenly, hip hop wasn't borrowed-it was reborn.
This unflinching global tour smashes the myth of hip hop's "American-ness," exposing how Tokyo's B-boys, Lagos's rhyme assassins, and Marseille's graffiti guerrillas hijacked the culture and made it ferociously their own. Through cinematic storytelling, meet South African poets who weaponized verses against apartheid, Brazilian funkeros merging beats with samba's soul, and Korean auteurs blending traditional pansori with trap's swagger.
More than a music history-this is a map of how the marginalized seized a movement. With gritty detail and prophetic insight, it charts hip hop's evolution from Bronx blocks to planetary phenomenon, proving its true power lies not in beats or rhymes, but in its infinite reinvention. The world didn't adapt hip hop; it baptized it in fire. Prepare to rethink everything you know about culture's most unstoppable force.
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Series
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
344 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-925988-96-3 (9781925988963)
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