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Come Up : An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop by Jonathan Abrams (2022, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-101984825135

ISBN-139781984825131

eBay Product ID (ePID)16057270526

Product Key Features

Book TitleCome Up : an Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

Number of Pages544 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGenres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, History & Criticism, Popular Culture

Publication Year2022

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic, Social Science

AuthorJonathan Abrams

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight32.5 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-016189

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"To say this book is incredible simply doesn't do it justice. It's essential. A primary source. It isn't just the fact that you have the voices of the most seminal rap artists who were there from the very beginning, you now have the perspective of time and reflection. Read this book. Eat this book. Steal this book. All the pieces matter." --Cheo Hodari Coker, creator and Showrunner of "Marvel's Luke Cage," co-writer of the Notorious B.I.G. biopic "Notorious" and author of Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G., "It's an extraordinary tale, the story of how a grassroots culture created itself from the streets and became an international force. To his credit, Abrams doesn't just talk to the architects. He also gets input from the stonemasons, the contractors and the other heavy lifters. It's the oral history hip-hop deserves as its beat goes on." --Los Angeles Times " The Come Up . . . is a riveting account of how rap carried hip-hop culture from obscurity to ubiquity, from disrespected to winning the Pulitzer Prize--and how it should have been getting that respect all along." --Andscape "An ambitious collection of firsthand accounts of hip-hop's birth and ultimate rise as the gravitational center of pop culture." --Okayplayer "Monumental and comprehensive . . . Sourced from years of in-depth interviews, The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop chronicles the culture from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its ongoing reign as the most powerful force in popular culture." --Rock the Bells "Jonathan Abrams, for the entirety of his career and regardless of the subject matter, has shown a profound ability to take the words and recollections of others and stitch them together into something big and special. The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful." --Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) "Hip-hop is a story machine, and Jonathan Abrams is unsurpassed in capturing the best of them. What Please Kill Me did for punk rock, The Come Up has done for hip-hop. These are the tales that made a movement." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop "Abrams set out to accomplish a task that sounds absurd: assemble an oral history of hip-hop from the five boroughs to the Bay and from Memphis to Miami, and the ascendance of everyone from G-Funk to G-Unit. Brilliantly curated and meticulously reported, this book will last for decades." --Jeff Weiss, founder of Passion of the Weiss "To say this book is incredible simply doesn't do it justice. It's essential--a primary source. Eat this book. Steal this book." --Cheo Hodari Coker, creator of Marvel's Luke Cage and author of Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G. "It's one thing to say you want to write an oral history on hip-hop. It's another thing to actually do it. The result is special--even for one of this country's truly legendary storytellers." --Justin Tinsley, author of It Was All a Dream "Kaleidoscopic . . . [The Come Up] will captivate hip-hop heads." --Publishers Weekly "Firsthand accounts from more than 300 interviewees provide a vivid picture of how the sound of hip-hop changes with the times and regions in Abrams's essential oral history of the genre. . . . This oral history on the evolution of hip-hop during its first 50 years is a labor of love and respect." -- Library Journal, "A masterpiece in book form. After conducting over 300 interviews over the course of three years, [Jonathan] Abrams has accomplished the incredible feat of detailing the rise of hip-hop straight from the creators of the genre themselves." --Spin "Abrams's beautifully edited book concentrates on hip-hop's rise, perfectly capturing the excitement of its gathering momentum and regional spread, taking the time to dig deeper than the big names." -- The Guardian "It's an extraordinary tale, the story of how a grassroots culture created itself from the streets and became an international force. To his credit, Abrams doesn't just talk to the architects. He also gets input from the stonemasons, the contractors and the other heavy lifters. It's the oral history hip-hop deserves as its beat goes on." --Los Angeles Times " The Come Up . . . is a riveting account of how rap carried hip-hop culture from obscurity to ubiquity, from disrespected to winning the Pulitzer Prize--and how it should have been getting that respect all along." --Andscape "An ambitious collection of firsthand accounts of hip-hop's birth and ultimate rise as the gravitational center of pop culture." --Okayplayer "Monumental and comprehensive . . . Sourced from years of in-depth interviews, The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop chronicles the culture from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its ongoing reign as the most powerful force in popular culture." --Rock the Bells "Jonathan Abrams, for the entirety of his career and regardless of the subject matter, has shown a profound ability to take the words and recollections of others and stitch them together into something big and special. The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful." --Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) "Hip-hop is a story machine, and Jonathan Abrams is unsurpassed in capturing the best of them. What Please Kill Me did for punk rock, The Come Up has done for hip-hop. These are the tales that made a movement." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop "Abrams set out to accomplish a task that sounds absurd: assemble an oral history of hip-hop from the five boroughs to the Bay and from Memphis to Miami, and the ascendance of everyone from G-Funk to G-Unit. Brilliantly curated and meticulously reported, this book will last for decades." --Jeff Weiss, founder of Passion of the Weiss "To say this book is incredible simply doesn't do it justice. It's essential--a primary source. Eat this book. Steal this book." --Cheo Hodari Coker, creator of Marvel's Luke Cage and author of Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G. "It's one thing to say you want to write an oral history on hip-hop. It's another thing to actually do it. The result is special--even for one of this country's truly legendary storytellers." --Justin Tinsley, author of It Was All a Dream, "To say this book is incredible simply doesn't do it justice. It's essential. A primary source. It isn't just the fact that you have the voices of the most seminal rap artists who were there from the very beginning, you now have the perspective of time and reflection. Read this book. Eat this book. Steal this book. All the pieces matter." --Cheo Hodari Coker, creator and showrunner of Marvel's Luke Cage, co-writer of the Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious, and author of Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G., "It's an extraordinary tale, the story of how a grassroots culture created itself from the streets and became an international force. To his credit, Abrams doesn't just talk to the architects. He also gets input from the stonemasons, the contractors and the other heavy lifters. It's the oral history hip-hop deserves as its beat goes on." --Los Angeles Times " The Come Up . . . is a riveting account of how rap carried hip-hop culture from obscurity to ubiquity, from disrespected to winning the Pulitzer Prize--and how it should have been getting that respect all along." --Andscape "An ambitious collection of firsthand accounts of hip-hop's birth and ultimate rise as the gravitational center of pop culture." --Okayplayer "Monumental and comprehensive . . . Sourced from years of in-depth interviews, The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop chronicles the culture from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its ongoing reign as the most powerful force in popular culture." --Rock the Bells "A masterpiece in book form. After conducting over 300 interviews over the course of three years, [Jonathan] Abrams has accomplished the incredible feat of detailing the rise of hip-hop straight from the creators of the genre themselves." --Spin "Jonathan Abrams, for the entirety of his career and regardless of the subject matter, has shown a profound ability to take the words and recollections of others and stitch them together into something big and special. The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful." --Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) "Hip-hop is a story machine, and Jonathan Abrams is unsurpassed in capturing the best of them. What Please Kill Me did for punk rock, The Come Up has done for hip-hop. These are the tales that made a movement." --Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop "Abrams set out to accomplish a task that sounds absurd: assemble an oral history of hip-hop from the five boroughs to the Bay and from Memphis to Miami, and the ascendance of everyone from G-Funk to G-Unit. Brilliantly curated and meticulously reported, this book will last for decades." --Jeff Weiss, founder of Passion of the Weiss "To say this book is incredible simply doesn't do it justice. It's essential--a primary source. Eat this book. Steal this book." --Cheo Hodari Coker, creator of Marvel's Luke Cage and author of Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G. "It's one thing to say you want to write an oral history on hip-hop. It's another thing to actually do it. The result is special--even for one of this country's truly legendary storytellers." --Justin Tinsley, author of It Was All a Dream "Kaleidoscopic . . . [The Come Up] will captivate hip-hop heads." --Publishers Weekly "[An] essential oral history of the genre. . . . [and] a labor of love and respect." -- Library Journal

Dewey Decimal782.421649

SynopsisThe essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture--from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire " The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful."--Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Spin The music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it's the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip-hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artists--nearly all of them people of color from some of America's most overlooked communities--pushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers, while transfixing the country's youth and reshaping fashion, art, and even language. And yet, the stories of many hip-hop pioneers and their individual contributions in the pre-Internet days of mixtapes and word of mouth are rarely heard--and some are at risk of being lost forever. Now, in The Come Up, the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Abrams offers the most comprehensive account so far of hip-hop's rise, a multi-decade chronicle told in the voices of the people who made it happen. In more than three hundred interviews conducted over three years, Abrams has captured the stories of the DJs, executives, producers, and artists who both witnessed and themselves forged the history of hip-hop. Masterfully combining these voices into a seamless symphonic narrative, Abrams traces how the genre grew out of the resourcefulness of a neglected population in the South Bronx, and from there how it flowed into New York City's other boroughs, and beyond--from electrifying live gatherings, then on to radio and vinyl, below to the Mason-Dixon Line, west to Los Angeles through gangster rap and G-funk, and then across generations. Abrams has on record Grandmaster Caz detailing hip-hop's infancy, Edward "Duke Bootee" Fletcher describing the origins of "The Message," DMC narrating his role in introducing hip-hop to the mainstream, Ice Cube recounting N.W.A's breakthrough and breakup, Kool Moe Dee recalling his Grammys boycott, and countless more key players. Throughout, Abrams conveys with singular vividness the drive, the stakes, and the relentless creativity that ignited one of the greatest revolutions in modern music. The Come Up is an exhilarating behind-the-scenes account of how hip-hop came to rule the world--and an essential contribution to music history.

LC Classification NumberML3531.A27 2022