{"product_id":"signifying-rappers-paperback","title":"Signifying Rappers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Costello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared \"an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap\/hip-hop.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. \u003ci\u003eSignifying Rappers\u003c\/i\u003e issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Back in print at last, \u003ci\u003eSignifying Rappers\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1996. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections \u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrief Interviews with Hideous Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOblivion\u003c\/i\u003e, the essay collections \u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConsider the Lobster\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2011.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53099940315443,"sku":"9780316225830","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SS9EcGZOUitxUWxHLzBIakg0bWJldz09.webp?v=1772481552","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/signifying-rappers-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}