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Beats and Elements : A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy: No Milk for the Foxes; DenMarked; High Rise eState of Mind
by Conrad Murray and Katie Beswick
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Overview
This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators Paul Cree, David Bonnick Junior and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically acclaimed theatre-maker's work. The three plays use hip hop to highlight the inequalities produced by the UK's class system, and weave lyricism, musicality and dialogue to offer authentic accounts of inner-city life written by working-class Londoners.
The plays are accompanied by two introductory essays: The first gives a specific social and historical context that helps readers make sense of the plays, the second positions hip hop as a contemporary literary form and offers some ways to read hip hop texts as literature. The collection also includes a foreword by leading hip hop theatre practitioner Jonzi D, interviews with the Beats & Elements company, and a glossary of words for students and international readers.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781350270602
- ISBN-10: 1350270601
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publish Date: March 2022
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.74 pounds
- Page Count: 160
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