Collective participation and audience engagement in rap music / David Diallo.
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TextSeries: Pop music, culture and identityPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019Description: 150 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783030253769 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Rap (Music) -- History and criticism | Rap (Music) -- Analysis, appreciation | Rap (Music) -- Social aspects | Music | MusicDDC classification: 782.4'21649 Summary: 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.
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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.
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