African Amer Music in Global Perspective

Hip Hop Heritage in Hustle Town

Langston Collin Wilkins

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780252054525
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston's hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways. Street-based musicians, avant-garde underground rappers, and Christian artists offer candid views of the scene while Wilkins delves into related aspects like slab, the area's hip hop-related car culture. What emerges is a portrait of a dynamic reciprocal process where an artist, having identified with and embodied a social space, reproduces that space in a performance even as the performance reconstructs the social space.

A vivid journey through a southern hip hop bastion, Welcome 2 Houston offers readers an inside look at a unique musical culture.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 If You Go Down to Houston
• 2 Everybody Inherits the Hood
• 3 Still Tippin’
• 4 Gotta Come Down, Gotta Rep the Hood
• 5 Turnin’ Headz
• 6 One City under God
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index
• Series Page