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The Book of Hip Hop Cover Art (Paperback)

by Andrew Emery (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Mitchell Beazley (18 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840009195
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840009194
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 22.1 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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The term "hip hop" refers to the cultural milieu surrounding largely black music from the 1970s onwards; including rap, jiggy, electro music, graphic design (grafitti, music graphics, and flyer and poster design) and fashion. From the inception of hip hop, in the 1970s, to the present day, this books covers the history of cover artwork of hip hop and rap album and single sleeves. It is organized chronologically by music style and interspersed with informative and amusing copy throughout. Divided into roughly chronological eras and genres including the Electro era, the Afrocentric era, and the Jiggy era. Each chapter has an informed and satirical introduction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Roll up your sleeves, 7 Jun 2004
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You really know when a musical genre has arrived, when a book of cover artwork is published. Hip hop has been around for a couple of decades or more so Andrew Emery's colourful book is especially timely and can join the expanding shelf of titles devoted to great cover art.

As is usual with any book devoted to this marketing art there are plenty of the duds and forgettable designs but in the case of hip hop the very nature of the music produces some startling and vibrant graphics. Just turn over the first few pages and by page thirteen the socko 1983 album Wild Style jumps of the page, graffiti artist Zephyr created the beautiful lettering, page sixteen has a stunning 1984 Afrika Bambaataa cover based on a Marvel comic cover. The three hundred covers are arranged historically into ten chapters and the author writes about the various musicians and graphic artists who created so many of these covers, in particular George Dubose gets some good coverage.

I thought the chapter called Beat Biters was intriguing, as the music itself samples other sounds why not sample other covers as well, ten examples are shown including the 1991 cover from Young Black Strangers based on the 1963 'With the Beatles' album, a 1989 Tone Loc cover 'Loc'ed after Dark' was swiped from a 1963 Donald Byrd Blue Note LP designed by Reid Miles.

This book will interest graphic designers and fans of hip hop and all those who just want a record of the stuff they've missed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for any Hip-Hop fan, 25 April 2004
By D. King (Islington, London) - See all my reviews
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Have to confess I didn't buy this book on Amazon, but saw it in HMV andsnapped it up. Hadn't heard anything about it before, but it's just thesort of book I've been waiting for. Full of artwork and backgroundinformation on all the mostly influencial rappers of the last two decades,my copy's already been thumbed to bits, and I've only had it two weeks.Great stuff. Respect to Mr Emery and Word-up to my Camberley crew.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Cool, 24 May 2005
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This book is cool as a "coffee table" type book (as poncey types would say)... a fair few good pictures and a nice trip down memory lane, but lacking in a lot of areas, and certainly couldn't be considered a complete collection of old school covers.
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4.0 out of 5 stars This is the book that every hip-hop guys must have!!!
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