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Documenting the emerging hip-hop scene before it became a billion-dollar industry, BACK IN THE DAYS reveals a time when the streets - not the media - set the standards for style. Shabazz's street-wise subjects strike poses that put supermodels to shame - showing off their Kangol caps, Gazelle glasses, shell-top Adidas sneakers and gold ropes. An anthropological showcase of real people who shaped hip-hop culture as it was emerging, this eloquent collection of portraits captures the innocence and fun of an era that spawned the fixations of today's generation.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this book to be very interesting Jamel Shabazz captures "Hip Hop style" of the eightes to a tee! This book found me thinking to back when I was young teenager and all I wanted a pair of Air Jordans to grace my feet (which I did get in the end). Also this book showed me how fashion does make a circle in style from way back when,to being the most wanted items of today, The shell toe Adidas trainers and Pumas. This is a book for those who grew up in 80's and for those who love Hip Hop today.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a poignant work to ponder slowly. There is very little text; the pictures speak for themselves. One is tempted to say it shows a more innocent world although the truth is that the filter of the camera lens prevents us learning the hardships in the lives of the portrait subjects - many of whom, the author states, would soon be dead, often as a result of violent crime or the prevailing drug culture. Some of the people in these photographs were innocent victims of the society in which they grew up. Others certainly drove their own ruined destinies. This is both a work of nostalgia and yet a moving record of a world that in historical terms existed only recently yet has now gone forever...and how completely so....and is not necessarily to be mourned. As such the book documents social change in a dramatic manner and is of interest to a far wider readership than just the hip hop generation who grace its beautifully produced pages.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book should be on the school national curriculum everywhere to combat the hostile takeover of hip hop by money making Music television owning media companies. What passes for hip-hop culture today is demonstrated to be pale and bloated. A picture tells a thousand words and these pictures tell you about a time when superstar lifestyles were a fantasy and not the norm, and materialistic gangsta rap hadn't hijacked the phenomenon. Fresh.
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