Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

Morgan, Jo-Ann, Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA)

Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement S. Craig Watkins. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.

With a nod to Cornel West's influential title, S. Craig Watkins's Hip Hop Matters offers much to consider in pondering the rhetorical question embedded within. For whom does a book on hip hop matter? Hip Hop Matters welcomes a general reader with cliffhanging denouements to suspend anticipation. As an example, the chapter titled "A Great Year in Hip Hop" ends with a hint of things to come: ". . . despite all the noise rap music made in the first half of 1998, the hip-hop movement would have much more to say over the course of the next six months" (66). …

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Publication information: Article title: Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement. Contributors: Morgan, Jo-Ann - Author. Journal title: Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA). Volume: 29. Issue: 3 Publication date: September 2006. Page number: 378+. © 2004 Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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