Signifying Rappers

by David Foster Wallace

2021-05-31 19:51:39

First time on audio—David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello''s exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.Living together in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared... Read more
First time on audio—David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello''s exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.

Living together in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared “an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop.” The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan’s challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? Signifying Rappers is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends.
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ISBN9781478951193
David Foster Wallace (Feb 21, 1962 – Sep 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, and a university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for...

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