Collective Participation and Audience Engagement in Rap Music

• Main Author: Diallo, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
• Subjects: Music.; African Americans.; Performing arts.; Culture.; African American Culture.; Performing Arts.; Global/International Culture.

Why do rap MCs present their studio recorded lyrics as "live and direct"? Why do they so insistently define abilities or actions, theirs or someone else's, against a pre-existing signifier? This book examines the compositional practice of rap lyricists and offers compelling answers to...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Call-and-Response in Rap Music
• 3."Rock the House:" Emceeing and Collective Participation in Rap Music's Formative Years (1974-1978)
• 4. "Keeping It Real Live!" Maintaining Collective Participation on Records
• 5. "Coming to You Live and Direct!": Performing Liveness and Immediacy on Record
• 6. Intertextuality in Rap Lyrics
• 7. From the Stage to the Booth to the Stage: Sustaining Collective Engagement During Live Performance
• 8. Rap Music and Singing Along to the N-word
• 9. Discussing Collective Participation and Audience Engagement with Sugarhill Gang's Master Gee
• 10. Conclusion.