TY  - BOOK
AU  - Potts,Rolf
TI  - The geto boys
T2  - 33 1/3
SN  - 9781628929461 (pbk.) :
U1  - 782.4'21649'0922 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Geto Boys (Musical group)
KW  - Rap musicians
KW  - Texas
KW  - Houston
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Music
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - Charting the rise of The Geto Boys from the earliest days of Houston's rap scene, Rolf Potts documents a moment in music history when hip-hop was beginning to replace rock as the transgressive sound of American youth. In creating, in their third album, a collection that was both sonically innovative and unprecedentedly vulgar, the band was accomplishing something that went beyond music. To paraphrase a sentiment from Don DeLillo, this group of young men from Houston's Fifth Ward ghetto had figured out the 'language of being noticed' - which is, in the end, the only language America understands
ER  -