|
|
Shaw, William ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
|
1 |
Shaw, William
Westside: Young Men and Hip Hop in L.A.
New York Simon & Schuster 2000 0684865068 / 9780684865065 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine
332 pp., maps; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly cocked/lean. Fine DJ. "From acclaimed author and journalist William Shaw comes this probing exploration of the dreams and realities of seven young African-American men struggling to make it in Southcentral Los Angeles, the world capital of gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop. In the late eighties, hip hop was revolutionized by the hard new sound that exploded from Los Angeles. The exhilarating and shocking new music described a place where guns, sex, and life are cheap and disposable and where the struggle for success, stability, and respect is hard fought. The seven young subjects of this hauntingly beautiful chronicle have all grown up in a neighborhood riddled with violence where the notion of manhood seems constantly under threat -- and all of them dream of transforming this urban experience into the platinum success enjoyed by their heroes, rappers such as Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre. The sometimes troubled products of a ruthless environment, they look to hip hop as their only viable form of expression, as their key to survival, and as their greatest hope for escape. Equal parts music journalism, travel writing, and urban history, Westside is literary non-fiction at its best, revealing a place and a way of life rarely seen and little understood by outsiders." - Publisher. William Shaw is a contributing editor at Details and Britain's Arena. He has written for The Times, The Independent, and The Observer in England as well as Vogue, George, and Esquire. He lives in London.
Price:
7.95 USD
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shaw, William on Aldersgatebooks.com
Shaw, William on Astleybookfarm.com
Shaw, William on Bookalley.com
Shaw, William on Booksfoundfast.co.uk
Shaw, William on Braintreeusedbooks.com
Shaw, William on Durnickbooks.co.uk
Shaw, William on Elkhornbooks.com
| Shaw, William on Eurolibros.com
Shaw, William on Funstons.net
Shaw, William on Intertextuality.com
Shaw, William on Kbookscanada.com
Shaw, William on Normjohnsonbookseller.com
Shaw, William on Oddballbooks.com
Shaw, William on Onceuponatimebooks.com
| Shaw, William on Orphantreasures.com
Shaw, William on Peterreynoldsbooks.com
Shaw, William on Riverrunbooksandprints.com
Shaw, William on Springystreasures.com
Shaw, William on Wheenobooks.com
|
|
|
