{"product_id":"b00bseq3h6","title":"Signifying Rappers","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiving together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap\/hip-hop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom.  Signifying Rappers  issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBack in print at last,  Signifying Rappers  is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924079411445,"sku":"YSL51177","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/A1Fa6J_6UyL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793672450","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b00bseq3h6","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}