Rhyme's Challenge : Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

Caplan, David

Oxford University Press Inc（2014/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 190 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195337136
• DDC分類 811.609

Full Description

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry-and everyday life.

Contents

Introduction: Because It Rhymes ; Chapter 1 ; Reduced to Rhyme: Contemporary Doggerel ; Chapter 2 ; The Art of Rhymed Insult ; Chapter 3 ; Making Love in Mirrors: Hip-Hop Seduction Verse ; Chapter 4 ; The Inheritors of Hip Hop: Reclaiming Rhyme ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index