Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello

Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello

140 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction essays music sad medium-paced
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Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop. The book they w...

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