Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet

Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet

by PatrickNeate (Author)

Synopsis

'It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at'. "Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet" is an examination of the world-wide hip hop phenomenon. Pinballing around the major cities of the world, from where it all began in the projects of Brooklyn and the Bronx to the excessive madness of Tokyo, from the random violence of Johannesburg, to the shanty towns of Rio, Whitbread Award winning writer Patrick Neate explores the way how through hip hop the potent symbolism of black America has been acquired, used and subsumed by cultures on every continent to create a uniquely different form of globalism. A stunning musical journey and cultural odyssey, "Where You're At" is hip hop's story of how it conquered the globe and nobody noticed.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 01 Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 0747563837
ISBN 13: 9780747563839
Book Overview: Whitbread Award Winning Author Patrick Neate's first work of non-fiction Will appeal to readers of No Logo and Capitalism and Its Discontents Will appeal to travel readers and music book readers

Media Reviews
Hip-hop proves to be a sharp lens to peer from, as Neate's illuminating, polemical and passionately thought-out travelogue makes clear...This is a dizzyingly clever, loving case for hip-hop as a catalyst for personal and social change.
Author Bio
Patrick Neate has written two novels, Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko and Twelve Bar Blues, which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award 2001. He is also a prolific and highly respected music journalist.