Il rap spiegato ai bianchi

This was put out by Ecco Press -- formerly of Hopewell, NJ -- before DFW's first book came out: early nineties. He and Mark Costello do a sort of Run and DMC, Q-Tip and Phife, passing of the essayistically flowing mic, and you can bet who's mos def. I read this in 1997 and still remember the part wh Leggi tutto

Il rap spiegato ai bianchi è un saggio scritto nell'89 da due giovani studenti di Harvard, esempi tipici della middle class americana, che sul finire degli anni ’80 decidono di dedicare una bellissima lettera d'amore a un genere musicale che da lì a poco sarebbe esploso come fenomeno di massa, non s Leggi tutto

M. Costello and D.F. Wallace wrote this sampler on rap before the genre exploded, and, as they wrote, "If you're reading this in print it's already dated.(71)" They pass the written mic back and forth throughout the book with short essays propelling the narrative, with "M." for Mark and "D" for David Leggi tutto

Some interesting observations embedded in extremely young-man pretentiousness. (I love me some extremely young-man pretentiousness!) For people like myself. DFW completionists, I mean. That's the only highly problematic feature of mine you have to share to be interested in this particular book. Other Leggi tutto

It's very interesting to see what two smart Harvard mother fuckers had to say about rap music in it's toddler stage 26 years after the fact. It was such a good history lesson, not only on the music, but the cultural phenomenon surrounding the music. Police brutality, Supply Side Reaganomics, the bro Leggi tutto

Dalla sensibilità di chi ascolta a tutti che usano il termine postmoderno fino allo stomaco dell'America.

Only a few glimpses of the future writer DFW would become but reading them is like saying hello to a long lost friend.