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"Don't Ask Me What Hip-Hop Is ①" Author: Hasegawa Machizo / Owada Toshiyuki Producer: Baideya
"Don't Ask Me What Hip-Hop Is ①" Author: Hasegawa Machizo / Owada Toshiyuki Producer: Baideya
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Introduction · · · · · ·
- Editor's Recommendation -
★Hip-hop is not music, it’s a game.
★A popular writer and university professor will introduce you to hip-hop. This is a groundbreaking hip-hop book that will stand the test of time no matter how the music scene changes.
★The original book is reprinted for the 11th time!
★RHYMESTER・Udamaru highly recommended! Yamashita Tatsuro is awesome!
★Recommended jointly by Little Tiger×Yuan Yue×Chi Zi!
★Little Tiger: "I didn't expect that all the secrets about hip-hop were explained clearly by two Japanese people in a chat."
★ Yuan Yue: “Japan has always been an important bridge for Western music and culture to enter China. Let’s take a look at how the Japanese understand hip-hop.”
- Introduction -
The first volume of the epoch-making popular hip-hop introductory series "Don't Ask Me What Hip-Hop Is Anymore"!
The history of hip-hop from its birth in the 1970s to the present day, with a guide to 100 albums + 8 film guides + 6 columns.
A popular writer who has been listening to hip-hop since the dawn of time, and a university professor who can no longer listen to any music except hip-hop after breaking his bones at a rock festival, will help you climb over the walls of hip-hop and thoroughly understand the culture of hip-hop. "It's never too late to start now!"
For details on the music played in this book, please see the postscript. Reading and listening at the same time will more than double the fun.
About the Author · · · · · ·
- About the Author -
Hasegawa Machizo was born in 1968 and grew up in Machida, Tokyo's "dirty south" during the heyday of the bad boy band. From film and music-related columns to novels, he has been hustling across genres as a writer. His personal works include "Soundtrack Country: Watching Movies Through Soundtracks" (サ・ン・ト・ランドサウンドトラックで観る影画, Yosensha, 2017) and "Our Future Will Definitely Be" (あたしたちの未来はきっと, Taba Books, 2017), and his co-authored works include "Young Americans" (ヤング・アダルトUSA, DU BOOKS, 2015).
Ohwada Toshiyuki, born in 1970, represents Kanagawa. He grew up in Shonan, the "West Coast" of Japan, where local bikers who eventually failed to develop into the Crips and Bloods drove wildly. Doctor of Literature. Professor of the Faculty of Law, Keio University. In 2011, he dropped his personal book "American Music History: From Blackface to Hip-Hop" (America Music History: Minstrel Society, Bulls Kara Hip Hop, Kodansha Metier, winner of the 33rd Suntory Academic Award). Co-authored works include "What Does Rap Reflect?" (ラップは何を影しているのか, Mainichi Shimbun Publishing, 2017), "Murakami Haruki's 100 Songs" (Murakami Haruki's 100 Songs, Lidongshe, 2017), etc.
- Translator Profile -
Mimida, born in the 1980s, represents "town-B". Studied Japanese studies at the Free University of Berlin, which was founded in the "East-West (Germany) confrontation". The creator and executive director of town-B Productions. Co-creator of SUBJPOP. Former media person.
