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Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
Ecco
1990
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Signed first edition of this early scholarly consideration of rap, and Wallace's book immediately preceding his classic Infinite Jest.
Written with his friend (the now-novelist Mark Costello) with whom he was living in Boston at the time, Signifying Rappers appeared between the rather unsuccessful Girl with the Curious Hair and Wallace's epic Infinite Jest. Alternating chapters like MCs passing the mic, the authors proceed in a rather Lester Bangs-ian manner (indeed, the book is dedicated to him) engaging in earnest historicity alongside flights of philosophical fancy. Uncommon in the first edition (it was reissued in 2013 following Wallace's death), it is scarce signed. And while the rear cover erroneously proclaims the book "the first serious consideration of rap" (both Steven Hager and David Topp beat them to that title), it remains an early (if largely) academic interrogation of hip-hop.
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Some sunning to edges of covers.
Very faint crease to front panel.
Lightly thumbed, mild shelfwear.
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