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Rhyme's Challenge

Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

David Caplan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:13th Mar '14

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Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry--and everyday life.

A refreshingly serious and stimulating consideration of the formal tendencies of hip hop, Caplanâs study infuses previous readings of hip hopâs social concerns and historical situations with an exacting look at the pleasures and ramifications of rhyme. * Yasmine Shamma, Poetry Magazine *

ISBN: 9780195337129

Dimensions: 145mm x 218mm x 18mm

Weight: 374g

192 pages