10 quotes from 5 different books

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cant-Stop-Wont-History-Generation/dp/0091912210/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323295511&sr=1-2  

‘’Hip Hop says come as you are, we are a family’’

‘’It ain’t about security. It ain’t about bling bling. It ain’t about how much your gun can shoot. It ain’t about $200 sneakers. It ain’t about me being better than you or you being better than me. It’s about you and me connecting one to one.  That’s why it has a universal appeal’’

‘’It brings white kids together with black kids with yellow kids, they all have something in common that they love.’’

‘’it gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes’’

Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Foundation-B-boys-B-girls-Hip-Hop-Culture/dp/019533406X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323295511&sr=1-3#_

‘’Hip hop is a problem, it is a cultural embodiment of violence, degradation and materialism.’’

‘’Hip hop is rapper exploiting women in videos and shooting each other in front of radio stations.’’

‘’It is a multibillion-dollar industry based on debauchery, disrespect and self-destruction.’’

Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Representing-Culture-Production-Black-Cinema/dp/0226874893/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323295511&sr=1-10

‘’Black popular culture illuminates the volatility of racialized discourses and the fact that they are constantly being formed and reformed.’’

Dream Factory Deferred: Black Womanhood, History and Music http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dream-Factory-Deferred-Womanhood-History/dp/0595456863/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323297677&sr=1-17#_

The black female body has stood as a marker for excessive exotic and sexuality in western society for centuries

Music Video and the Politics of Representation (Music and the Moving Image)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Video-Politics-Representation-Moving/dp/0748633235/ref=sr_1_51?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323299609&sr=1-51#_   

‘’In terms of music video, negative images and misrepresentations are often those that are identified as sexually exploitative- images in which women are depicted simply as bodies or body parts to be observed and desired rather than social agents who have complex and drives of their own.’’