Description: Further DetailsTitle: Geto Boys' The Geto BoysCondition: NewEAN: 9781628929461ISBN: 9781628929461Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USAFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/19/2016Item Height: 165mmItem Length: 121mmItem Weight: 149gAuthor: Rolf PottsLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1628929464Description: At the outset of summer in 1990, a Houston gangsta rap group called the Geto Boys was poised to debut its self-titled third album under the guidance of hip-hop guru Rick Rubin. What might have been a low-profile remix release from a little-known corner of the rap universe began to make headlines when the album's distributor refused to work with the group, citing its violent and depraved lyrics. When The Geto Boys was finally released, chain stores refused to stock it, concert promoters canceled the group's performances, and veteran rock critic Robert Christgau declared the group "sick motherfuckers." One quarter of a century later the album is considered a hardcore classic, having left an immutable influence on gangsta rap, horrorcore, and the rise of Southern hip-hop. Charting the rise of the Geto Boys from the earliest days of Houston's rap scene, Rolf Potts documents a moment in music history when hip-hop was beginning to replace rock as the transgressive sound of American youth. In creating an album that was both sonically innovative and unprecedentedly vulgar, the Geto Boys were accomplishing something that went beyond music. To paraphrase a sentiment from Don DeLillo, this group of young men from Houston's Fifth Ward ghetto had figured out the "language of being noticed" — which is, in the end, the only language America understands.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: 33 1/3Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Geto Boys' The Geto Boys
Title: Geto Boys' The Geto Boys
EAN: 9781628929461
ISBN: 9781628929461
Release Date: 05/19/2016
Release Year: 2016
ISBN-10: 1628929464
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: 33 1/3
Book Title: Geto Boys' the Geto Boys
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, History & Criticism, Composers & Musicians, General
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 5.3 Oz
Author: Rolf Potts
Item Length: 6.6 in
Item Width: 4.9 in
Book Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
