Come Friday night, most college students put down their books and put on their favorite jeans before heading out to parties where hip-hop music blares in crowded clubs and living rooms—Kanye or Lil Wayne’s rhymes making it necessary to shout in order to be heard. The next day, the more diligent of these students will […]
Adam Bradley— Last fall saw the publication of The Anthology of Rap, a collection that I co-edited with Andrew DuBois. The book gathers nearly 300 lyrics by dozens of artists from across rap’s four decades. Our purpose was to highlight rap’s development as a literary art form by underscoring the poetics of its song lyrics. […]
Every year, we here at Yale University Press have a bakeoff contest at our holiday party. Categories change from year to year but the one constant is a prize for the Best Book Based on a YUP title. Some highlights in the past have included a cake shaped like an electric guitar, another in the […]
If you’ve been missing all the buzz, be sure to check out the year-end giveaway at “Muphoric Sounds,” including our newly published, Anthology of Rap, which makes an excellent holiday gift for any music aficionado. The contest will stay open until Thursday, December 23, so enter and grab a gift for your favorite poetry fan […]
Adam Bradley appeared yesterday on WNYC’s Soundcheck to talk about the history of a “living literature” and the ideas behind producing the newly published Anthology of Rap. Tonight, he and co-editor Andrew DuBois will be at the 92nd Street Y-Tribeca at 7pm, to explore rap with a line-up of writers, poets, and musicians: Imani Perry, […]
If you missed it on NPR’s All Things Considered last weekend, be sure to listen to Adam Bradley‘s brief interview on lyrics as poetry: NPR.org. NPR’s “The Record” blog also followed up with Sam Anderson after his rave review of The Anthology of Rap in New York magazine, and you can read that piece here. […]
If you’ve been missing the buzz about Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois’ new Anthology of Rap, there’s a chance to catch them on the East Coast at DC’s Lincoln Theater on Tuesday, November 16 and in New York on Wednesday, November 17 at the 92nd Street Y-Tribeca. The editors’ entourage at each venue includes Common […]
Is this awesome or what? The long-awaited trailer for The Anthology of Rap, edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, is finally here. By bringing together more than three hundred lyrics written over thirty years, from the “old school” to the “golden age” to the present day, the book doubles as both a fan’s guide […]
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