Rhyme's Challenge
Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Music Styles, Pop & Rock, Rap, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
| Author: | David Caplan | ISBN: | 9780199364268 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Publication: | January 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Caplan |
| ISBN: | 9780199364268 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication: | January 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
