To live and defy in LA how gangsta rap changed America
Felicia Angeja Viator (Author)
"In its early days, rap was understood as the poetry of the "inner city," which usually meant New York. Few expected anything as hard-edged as gangsta rap to emerge from Los Angeles, home of surf and sun. Felicia Viator tells the story of LA's self-styled "ghetto reporters," whose music forced America to see an urban crisis it preferred to ignore"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2020
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2020