Rhyme's Challenge

Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-533712-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caplan, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

David Caplan is Charles M. Weis Chair in English and Associate Director of Creative Writing at Ohio Wesleyan University. His previous books include Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form and the poetry collection In the World He Created According to His Will.