Ilustres raperos

El rap explicado a los blancos

Ilustres raperos - David Foster Wallace - Malpaso
Publisher name: 
Malpaso
Year of publication: 
2017
Pages: 
224
Book size:
11x21cm
Weight: 379.9 g
Binding: 
Hard cover

A fundamental guide to understand the phenomenon of rap in all its complexity at the hands of one of the most influential and relevant authors of international literature of the late twentieth century. In 1989 David Foster Wallace moved to Boston to study the postgraduate course in aesthetic philosophy at Harvard. He moved into the apartment of his former roommate at the university, Mark Costello. Living together they discovered a common interest in the then nascent rap music, and DFW ventures to write a short essay in which it tries to shred the cultural DNA of this genre. Mark Costello writes small replicas that he then extends to full essays, intertwined with those of Wallace. The result will be Ilustres rappers, a kind of treaty that tries to find the meaning of rap from sociology, economics, philosophy or law. The book not only deals with music: from speaking about rap, the small...read more

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Book: Ilustres raperos

ISBN: 9788416665143
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