Title

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

Authors

David Caplan, Ohio Wesleyan University

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Description

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 generallydismiss 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.

ISBN

9780195337129

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Oxford University Press

City

New York

Recommended Citation

Caplan, David, "Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture" (2014). English Faculty Books. 6.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/eng_books/6