Blues and Hip-Hop
2011
A Folkcommunication View
This book presents an analysis of studies on the blues and hip-hop rhythms, demonstrating that communicative scenarios are forms of communication specific to cultures.
With an accessible style and several concepts related to culture, the work investigates the roots of North American musicality and its connection with hip-hop, recounting the battles fought, especially by Afro-descendant populations, to make visible the forms of segregation to which entire generations were subjected.
Through their rhythms, they recorded a musicality resulting from a long history of struggle for survival in territories that were often inhospitable, finding singular forms of preserving values, religiosity, freedom, identity, and customs.
