American Music #: Who Got the Camera?

A History of Rap and Reality

American Music #: Who Got the Camera?
Eric Harvey
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 408pg
25 Oct 2021 US
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9781477321348
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Reality first appeared in the late 1980s-in the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as Cops and America' s Most Wanted; the daytime gabfests of Geraldo, Oprah, and Donahue; and the tabloid news of A Current Affair. In a bracing work of cultural criticism, Eric Harvey argues that reality TV emerged in dialog with another kind of entertainment that served as its foil while borrowing its techniques: gangsta rap. Or, as legendary performers Ice Cube and Ice-T called it, "reality rap. "Reality rap and reality TV were components of a cultural revolution that redefined popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium. Reality entertainment borrowed journalistic tropes but was undiluted by the caveats and context that journalism demanded. While N. W. A. ' s "Fuck tha Police" countered Cops' vision of Black lives in America, the reality rappers who emerged in that group' s wake, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur, embraced reality' s visceral tabloid sensationalism, using the media' s obsession with Black criminality to collapse the distinction between image and truth. Reality TV and reality rap nurtured the world we live in now, where politics and basic facts don' t feel real until they have been translated into mass-mediated entertainment.

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Who Got the Camera? draws a line from [Gil] Scott-Heron to Kendrick Lamar -- and focuses particularly on the era from the late ' 80s to the mid-1990s, from Straight Outta Compton (1988) to the 1997 death of the Notorious B. I. G. . . . Who Got the Camera? is an important history of an incredibly important and complex point in American popular music, but it also points to the need to elevate Black women' s voices in a discussion where they' ve too rarely been given platforms. -- "The Current" (10/14/2021 12:00:00 AM)
Eric Harvey is an associate professor in the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University. His writing has appeared in Pitchfork, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The LA Review of Books, Buzzfeed, MTV. com, and The Village Voice.
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ISBN-13: 9781477321348
Published: 25 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 408

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