Rhyme's challenge : hip hop, poetry, and contemporary rhyming culture /
Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets g...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: because it rhymes
- Reduced to rhyme: contemporary doggerel
- The art of rhymed insult
- Making love in mirrors: hip-hop seduction verse
- The inheritors of hip hop: reclaiming rhyme
- Conclusion: on the present and future of rhyme.
