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Who Got the Camera?
- A History of Rap and Reality
Engelsk Hardback
Who Got the Camera?
- A History of Rap and Reality
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
408
ISBN-13:
9781477321348
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1477321349
Udg. Dato:
5 okt 2021
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
164mm
Forlag:
University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato:
5 okt 2021
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