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Hip Hop Matters

S. Craig Watkins

Beacon Press

25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-2892

0807009822 $24.95 www.beacon.org

This is no casual coverage, but a semi-scholarly history of how hip hop evolved and changed its inventors, artists, producers and even influenced politics and social mores over the decades. Hip hop began in the late 1970s and has seen a explosive rise in popularity since, affecting not just the music industry but the ad industry, education system, and black culture as a whole. From its extremes to the battles fought over hip hop music across the board, HIP HOP MATTERS: POLITICS, POP CULTURE, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF A MOVEMENT is essential for any who would understand the music and its influences.