by Christian Béthune · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782862609515
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«Le rap» is Christian Béthune's essay on the history and aesthetics of rap, published by Autrement in paperback (214 pages, in French).
The essay surveys the history and criticism of rap and analyses its role in shaping an African American aesthetic and in US popular culture during the twentieth century. Béthune approaches rap as a musical practice and presents it as an aesthetic «outside the law», as the subtitle announces.
Published in Paris in 1999, in the Mutations collection by Autrement. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214).
For readers interested in the history of rap, African American aesthetics, and the study of American popular culture.
