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Break It Down: Reflections on Hip Hop from Young Minds

by Assata Makonnen

Hip-hop through young perspectives

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Hip-hop through young perspectives

Six youth perspectives frame this collection’s exploration of hip-hop’s connections to jazz, fashion, and media, including the influence of rappers across those fields. The description also points beyond familiar settings to places where hip-hop is banned, and to a fusion of ballet and hip-hop that creates a new style and movement. Blending reality and fiction, the book treats rap as both a musical form and a cultural force, with young people’s reflections providing the organizing lens.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in rap and hip-hop culture.
  • Readers curious about connections between hip-hop, jazz, fashion, and media.
  • Those interested in creative nonfiction and fiction about music and youth perspectives.

Themes

Hip-hop and cultural influenceYouth perspectivesRap and other art formsMusic, fashion, and media

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Book overview

Break It Down: Reflections on Hip Hop from Young Minds is a compilation of how the era of rap music has had a major influence on the young people of today. Told from six different youth perspectives, Break It Down explores the dynamic interconnection of rap music with jazz, fashion, and media, and how rappers influenced each of these milestones. Then, travel to faraway lands where hip hop is banned, where a rapper is a trendsetter, and see how ballet married hip hop to create a brand-new style and movement.

Break It Down showcases both reality and fiction, all in a creative adventure to honor the poetic, eclectic, prolific rhyming style known as rap.

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