Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
David Caplan
Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry-and everyday life.
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Year:
2014
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Language:
english
Pages:
192
ISBN 10:
0195337123
ISBN 13:
9780195337129
File:
EPUB, 1.79 MB
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english, 2014