Rhyme's Challenge Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Author:
- David Caplan
- ISBN:
- 9780199364268
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780195337129, 9780199714100, 9780195337136
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Pages:
- 190
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2023-06-17
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Copyright by:
- Oxford University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Music, Nonfiction, Poetry