Harkness DVS Mindz

The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55757-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you’ve never heard of. Geoff Harkness takes readers on a unique two-decade journey alongside the members of DVS Mindz, chronicling their childhoods, their brush with success, and what became of them in the years that followed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harkness, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cast of Characters
Preface
Introduction: “U-God Outshined by Topeka Group”
Part I. 1970–1999
1. The Genesis
2. A Pirate Poet
3. Daymond Pulling Chains
4. 1137 Washburn Avenue
5. Unsigned Hype
6. Dark Thoughts, Lovely Lyrics
Part II. 2000–2003
7. Real MCs
8. The Crew
9. Heat
10. Killa Bees
11. Hatersville
Part III. 2004–2020
12. The DVS Story
13. United States of America versus De’Juan Knight
14. Dallas
15. A Pirate Looks at 40
16. Respect
17. Modern Warfare
Conclusion: 5105 Virginia Avenue
Acknowledgments
Where Are They Now?
Research Methods
A Beginner’s Guide to DVS Mindz
Discography
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Harkness is associate professor of sociology at Rhode Island College. His previous books are Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class (2014) and Changing Qatar: Culture, Citizenship, and Rapid Modernization (2020). He first met the members of DVS Mindz in 1999 as a music journalist in Lawrence, Kansas, and went on to direct their early music videos and a documentary film about the group.