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Boombox Project : The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground by Lyle Owerko (2010, Hardcover)
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The Boombox Project book by Lyle Owerko is a must-have for any music lover. This hardcover book, published by Abrams, Inc. in 2010, explores the worlds of photography, art, and music, with a focus on rap and hip hop.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAbrams, Inc.
ISBN-100810982757
ISBN-139780810982758
eBay Product ID (ePID)81859497
Product Key Features
Book TitleBoombox Project : the Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGenres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, General, Photoessays & Documentaries
Publication Year2010
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic, Art, Photography
AuthorLyle Owerko
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight39.4 Oz
Item Length11.5 in
Item Width9.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-281805
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal779.96213893
SynopsisOn the heels of the graffiti renaissance comes a vibrant look at an old-school icon that figured prominently in the hip-hop, rock & roll, and punk movements of the 1970s and 80s. The Boombox Project features contemporary fine art portraits of an array of vintage boomboxes, as well as scores of documentary photographs of the people who brought the boombox movement to life back in the day. The book is more than just a collection of images, though; it's also an oral history of the early days of hip-hop, featuring memories from Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Rosie Perez, Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, Lisa Lisa, DJ Spooky, and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, among others, on the role this once ubiquitous machine played.Part pop cultural history and part "gadget porn," this lively and highly stylish volume is one of the cool books of the season.Praise for The Boombox Project:"Photographer Lyle Owerko tells the whole story with crisp still lifes and an oral history of an era when graffiti and antigentrification ruled." --Playboy, October 2010, On the heels of the graffiti renaissance comes a vibrant look at an old-school icon that figured prominently in the hip-hop, rock & roll, and punk movements of the 1970s and 80s. The Boombox Project features contemporary fine art portraits of an array of vintage boomboxes, as well as scores of documentary photographs of the people who brought the boombox movement to life back in the day. The book is more than just a collection of images, though; it's also an oral history of the early days of hip-hop, featuring memories from Fab 5 Freddy, Bob Gruen, Rosie Perez, Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, Lisa Lisa, DJ Spooky, and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, among others, on the role this once ubiquitous machine played. Part pop cultural history and part "gadget porn," this lively and highly stylish volume is one of the cool books of the season. Praise for The Boombox Project "Photographer Lyle Owerko tells the whole story with crisp still lifes and an oral history of an era when graffiti and antigentrification ruled." -- Playboy , October 2010, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda. Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural influences that forged twentieth-century Brazil, especially those of the Portuguese, the Spanish, other European colonists, Native Americans, and Africans. Buarque de Holanda argues that all of these originary influences were transformed into a unique Brazilian culture and society--a "transition zone." The bookpresents an understanding of why and how European culture flourished in a large, tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. Buarque de Holanda uses Max Weber's typological criteria to establish pairs of "ideal types" as a means of stressing particular characteristics of Brazilians, while also trying to understand and explain the local historical process. Along with other early twentieth-century works such as The Masters and the Slaves by Gilberto Freyre and The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil by Caio Prado Júnior, Roots of Brazil set the parameters of Brazilian historiography for a generation and continues to offer keys to understanding the complex history of Brazil. Roots of Brazil has been published in Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German, and French. This long-awaited English translation will interest students and scholars of Portuguese, Brazilian, and Latin American history, culture, literature, and postcolonial studies. " Roots of Brazil , first published in 1936 and substantially revised in subsequent editions, is one of those works that shapes its readers' imagination, a book that in a certain sense 'invents' its country, serving as a mirror in which, while seeking their own image, Brazilian readers have also found their own attitudes and inclinations. On the other hand, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's book functions not only as a fixed portrait that preserves a scene from the past but also as a bright surface that can reflect each new historical moment." --from the foreword by Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University
LC Classification NumberTR647
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- 06 Nov, 2019
Back to the Future.
It's a great book. I had 40 years ago the JVC Boombox that it shows in a photograph. It's great to show all the history of the Boombox Era, very enlighting. I enjoyed it very much, in text and photographs too.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 Jan, 2017
A great book for the lovers of boom boxes!
Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Feb, 2018
Great book thanks
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
