Josh Bokor
It's interesting to read about whiteness in hip-hop and its impact in social, commercial, cultural, and political aspects from Tanz's point of view, since he's a white, obsessive male hip-hop fan. It's not a casual or comforting read, one that is pretty insightful and highlights from different perspectives in the hip-hop community and those who are out of it and instead are in offshoots of the genre. Although much has changed since its initial publication in 2007, “Other People's Property” is a proper telling of race's impact in hip-hop and it's definitely an introduction for a much larger and more in depth book on the topic.
It's interesting to read about whiteness in hip-hop and its impact in social, commercial, cultural, and political aspects from Tanz's point of view, since he's a white, obsessive male hip-hop fan. It's not a casual or comforting read, one that is pretty insightful and highlights from different perspectives in the hip-hop community and those who are out of it and instead are in offshoots of the genre. Although much has changed since its initial publication in 2007, “Other People's Property” is a proper telling of race's impact in hip-hop and it's definitely an introduction for a much larger and more in depth book on the topic.