TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey,Eric
TI  - Who Got the Camera?: A History of Rap and Reality 
T2  - American Music Series
SN  - 9781477323946
U1  - 782.421649 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Crime in music
KW  - Gangsta rap (Music)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Rap musicians
KW  - Reality television programs
KW  - True crime television programs
KW  - MUSIC / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - rap music history, history of rap music, history of rap music in America
KW  - reality television, reality tv, cops, police, media studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface: Eavesdropping --; Introduction: The Strength of Street Knowledge --; 1. Peace Is a Dream, Reality Is a Knife --; 2. Don’t Quote Me, Boy, ’Cause I Ain’t Said Shit --; 3. Get Me the Hell Away from This TV --; 4. I’m Gonna Treat You Like King! --; 5. Who Got the Camera? --; 6. Stop Being Polite and Start Getting Real --; 7. 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted --; Conclusion: Deeper Than Rap --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Reality first appeared in the late 1980s—in the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as Cops and America’s Most Wanted; the daytime gabfests of Geraldo, Oprah, and Donahue; and the tabloid news of A Current Affair. In a bracing work of cultural criticism, Eric Harvey argues that reality TV emerged in dialog with another kind of entertainment that served as its foil while borrowing its techniques: gangsta rap. Or, as legendary performers Ice Cube and Ice-T called it, “reality rap.” Reality rap and reality TV were components of a cultural revolution that redefined popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium. Reality entertainment borrowed journalistic tropes but was undiluted by the caveats and context that journalism demanded. While N.W.A.’s “Fuck tha Police” countered Cops’ vision of Black lives in America, the reality rappers who emerged in that group’s wake, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur, embraced reality’s visceral tabloid sensationalism, using the media's obsession with Black criminality to collapse the distinction between image and truth. Reality TV and reality rap nurtured the world we live in now, where politics and basic facts don’t feel real until they have been translated into mass-mediated entertainment
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/321348
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477323946
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