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Despite its extraordinary popularity and worldwide influence, the world of rap and hip hop is under constant attack. Impressions and interpretations of its meaning and power are perpetually being challenged. Somewhere someone is bemoaning the negative impact of rap music on contemporary culture. In In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap, bestselling author and scholar Alexs Pate argues for a fresh understanding of rap as an example of powerful and effective poetry, rather than a negative cultural phenomenon.

Pate articulates a way of "reading" rap that makes visible both its contemporary and historical literary values. He encourages the reader to step beyond the dominance of the beat and the raw language and come to an appreciation of rap's literary and poetic dimensions. What emerges is a vision of rap as an exemplary form of literary expression, rather than a profane and trendy musical genre. Pate focuses on works by several well-known artists to reveal in rap music, despite its penchant for vulgarity, a power and beauty that is the heart of great literature.

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  • Title In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap
  • Author Alexs Pate
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 9780810860087th
  • Edition 9780810860087
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD
  • Publication date 2010-01-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780810860087 / 0810860082
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Rap (Music) - Texts, Rap (Music) - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008049295
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

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  • Library Journal Annex, 12/10/2009, Page 0
  • Publisher's Weekly Annex, 01/04/2010, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2010, Page 232

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Alexs Pate is Associate Professor of African American and African studies at the University of Minnesota. Pate is the best-selling author of Amistad: A Novel Based on the Screenplay and Losing Absalom, which received a Minnesota Book Award and was named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
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