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An edition of Hip (2004)

Hip

the history

1st ed.
  • 4 Want to read

Explores where hip comes from and how it works. Chronicles the shared national identity that blacks and white, Jews and goyim, gays and straights invented in order to live with each other, tracing the evolution of a vulgar, electric American style from Walt Whitman to Jay Z.

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Publisher
HarperCollins, Ecco
Language
English
Pages
405

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Hip
2008, HarperCollins
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Hip: The History (P.S.)
August 2, 2005, Harper Perennial
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Hip: The History (P.S.)
August 2, 2005, Harper Perennial
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Hip: The History
October 5, 2004, Ecco
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Hip: the history
2004, HarperCollins, Ecco
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Hip: The History
October 5, 2004, Ecco
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Table of Contents

In the beginning there was rhythm: slavery, minstrelsy and the blues
The O.G.'s: Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman
My black/white roots: Jazz, the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance
Would a hipster hit a lady? Pulp Fiction, Film Noir and Gangsta Rap
The golden age of Hip, Part 1: Bebop, cool jazz and the cold war
The golden age of hip, part 2: The beats
The tricksters: signifying monkeys and other hip engines of progress
Hip has three fingers: the miseducation of Bugs Bunny
The world is a ghetto: Blacks, Jews, and Blues
Criminally hip: Outlaws, gangsters, players, hustlers
Where the ladies at? Revel girls, riot grrrls and the revenge on the mother
Behind the music: the drug connection
"It's like punk rock, but a car": Hip sells out
Do geeks dream of HTML sheep? A digressive journey through digital hip
Everybody's hip: superficial reflections on the white caucasian.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York, N.Y

Classifications

Library of Congress
E169.1 .L528 2004, E169.1.L528 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
405 p. :
Number of pages
405

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22859306M
Internet Archive
hiphistory0000lela
ISBN 10
0060528176
LCCN
2005295735
OCLC/WorldCat
56781714
Library Thing
40672
Goodreads
581774

Work Description

Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape -- and continues to influence -- America's view of itself, and provides an incisive account of hip's quest for authenticity.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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Toward the end of 1619, John Rolfe, the first tobacco grower of Virginia, noted the arrival of a new import to the British colonies.
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