TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diallo,David
TI  - Collective participation and audience engagement in rap music
T2  - Pop music, culture and identity
SN  - 9783030253769 (hbk.) :
U1  - 782.4'21649 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Rap (Music)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Analysis, appreciation
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Music
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Specialized
N2  - Why do rap MCs present their studio recorded lyrics as 'live and direct'? Why do they so insistently define abilities or actions, theirs or someone else's, against a pre-existing signifier? This text examines the compositional practice of rap lyricists and offers compelling answers to these questions. Through a 40 year-span analysis of the music, it argues that whether through the privileging of chanted call-and-response phrases or through rhetorical strategies meant to assist in getting one's listening audience open, the focus of the first rap MCs on community building and successful performer-audience cooperation has remained prevalent on rap records with lyrics and production techniques encouraging the listener to become physically and emotionally involved in recorded performances
ER  -