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Word Is Bond The Untold Story of Hip-Hop Journalism
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
18.05.2027
Verlag
Random House Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
240 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780593446904
A treasure trove from the golden era of hip-hop journalism, featuring groundbreaking articles, oral histories, and never-before-seen photos and artifacts, celebrating the magazines and writers who paved the way for a new wave in journalism.
Before the blogs. Before TikTok. Before Threads and Substack. Young writers bet everything on a culture everyone called a fad. They weren't supposed to win. But when hip-hop conquered the world, so did they.
Word Is Bond excavates the untold story of how The Source, VIBE, XXL, Rap Pages, and dozens of other rap magazines reinvented the rules of media. These groundbreaking publications moved beyond music to become laboratories for a new American journalism. Highlighting the voices of Greg Tate, Joan Morgan, Cheo Hodari Coker, Mimi Valdés, bonz malone, dream hampton, and more, Word Is Bond restores hip-hop journalism to its rightful place in the canon, not as a sidebar to music history or cultural criticism but as a definitive shift in the way American stories are told. With unprecedented access to this history through articles, documents, photos, and first-person reportage, renowned archivist Syreeta Gates has curated a portal to the past, making readers feel like they're back at those desks, covering the latest albums, or sitting up in their rooms, poring over profiles of their favorite artists. But Gates also goes beyond nostalgia to assess where we are now: What is the current state of hip-hop journalism, and who will own its future?
Word Is Bond is both a celebration and a corrective. For those who lived it and those who come next, this is the blueprint, the receipts, and the charge forward.
Before the blogs. Before TikTok. Before Threads and Substack. Young writers bet everything on a culture everyone called a fad. They weren't supposed to win. But when hip-hop conquered the world, so did they.
Word Is Bond excavates the untold story of how The Source, VIBE, XXL, Rap Pages, and dozens of other rap magazines reinvented the rules of media. These groundbreaking publications moved beyond music to become laboratories for a new American journalism. Highlighting the voices of Greg Tate, Joan Morgan, Cheo Hodari Coker, Mimi Valdés, bonz malone, dream hampton, and more, Word Is Bond restores hip-hop journalism to its rightful place in the canon, not as a sidebar to music history or cultural criticism but as a definitive shift in the way American stories are told. With unprecedented access to this history through articles, documents, photos, and first-person reportage, renowned archivist Syreeta Gates has curated a portal to the past, making readers feel like they're back at those desks, covering the latest albums, or sitting up in their rooms, poring over profiles of their favorite artists. But Gates also goes beyond nostalgia to assess where we are now: What is the current state of hip-hop journalism, and who will own its future?
Word Is Bond is both a celebration and a corrective. For those who lived it and those who come next, this is the blueprint, the receipts, and the charge forward.
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