Full Description
The first study of hip-hop and aging, featuring insights from over twenty hip-hop pioneers and veterans.
Hip-hop is now in its sixth decade. How are the culture's oldest innovators aging in, and with, hip-hop? In In Old in the Game, Murray Forman examines how hip-hop artists, audiences, and entrepreneurs negotiate the cultural process of aging.
Featuring commentary from hip-hop pioneers Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, and Sha-Rock as well as veterans like Chuck D, LL Cool J, Ice-T, Pepa, and Yo-Yo, Forman reveals age as an essential component of identity and a mode of expression through which hip-hop-identified heads comprehend the world and present themselves. The book covers themes of generational difference and dissonance, ageism, memory and nostalgia, and retirement and death and offers a new way of understanding hip-hop as generations of hip-hop elders come of age, mature, and learn to grow old within the culture.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Stronger as I Get Older"
Chapter 1: Age Representing and Prestige Titles
Chapter 2: Hip-Hop Temporality: Back in the Day and Old School
Chapter 3: Golden Age Hip-Hop and "Classic Material"
Chapter 4: Hip-Hop Nostalgia, Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 5: From Boom Bap to Snap Chat Rap: Age Difference and Dissonance
Chapter 6: Old Flow, Stillness, and Relevance
Chapter 7: Career Retirement, Death, and Other Exits
Conclusion: Hip-Hop at 50 and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
