Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

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Introduction: Because It Rhymes
Chapter 1
Reduced to Rhyme: Contemporary Doggerel
Chapter 2
The Art of Rhymed Insult
Chapter 3
Making Love in Mirrors: Hip-Hop Seduction Verse
Chapter 4
The Inheritors of Hip Hop: Reclaiming Rhyme
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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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 generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry--and everyday life.

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A refreshingly serious and stimulating consideration of the formal tendencies of hip hop, Caplanas study infuses previous readings of hip hopas social concerns and historical situations with an exacting look at the pleasures and ramifications of rhyme

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