Old in the Game

Aging in and with Hip-Hop
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-41753-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: California Series in Hip Hop Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forman, Murray

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Gerontopsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: “Stronger as I Get Older”Chapter 1: Age Representing and Prestige TitlesChapter 2: Hip-Hop Temporality: Back in the Day and Old SchoolChapter 3: Golden Age Hip-Hop and “Classic Material”Chapter 4: Hip-Hop Nostalgia, Past, Present, and FutureChapter 5: From Boom Bap to Snap Chat Rap: Age Difference and DissonanceChapter 6: Old Flow, Stillness, and RelevanceChapter 7: Career Retirement, Death, and Other ExitsConclusion: Hip-Hop at 50 and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Murray Forman is Professor Emeritus of Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University and is author of The ’Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop.