Beatboxing
How Hip-Hop Changed The Fight Game
From Mike Tyson to Tupac, from Roy Jones Jr. to J. Prince... Step into a world of rap moguls turned fight promoters, boxers turned rappers, and rappers turned boxers.Daryl McDonald of the iconic rap group Run-D.M.C once argued that Muhammad Ali's Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee was hip-hop's most famous lyric. Ali's poetic brilliance, ignited by cornerman and hype man Drew Bundini Brown, supplied the template for how hip-hop artists forged their identities and performed their art. Ali's influence on hip-hop culture is undeniable. Hip-hop's impact on boxing, on the other hand, has yet to be explored.Until Now. In Beatboxing: How Hip-H…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-949590-39-5
- EAN: 9781949590395
- Produktnummer: 34835927
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Ausstattung: A-Format Paperback
Über den Autor
Dr. Todd D. Snyder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Siena College in Albany, New York. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Marshall University (2004, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Ohio University (2011). Snyder is the author of Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype, The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity and 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia. His scholarly research draws from a variety of fields: rhetoric and composition, community literacy studies, communications studies, cultural studies, and critical theory. Snyder also teaches a course at Siena College in hip-hop studies and contributed a chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Studies. The son of a West Virginia boxing trainer, Snyder's work is also intimately connected to his life experience, the theme of working class masculinity serving as primary focus of his writing projects.
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