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Tricia Rose

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born

New York City

gender

female

website

http://www.triciarose.com

genre

Nonfiction

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She graduated from Yale University where she received a BA in Sociology and then received her Ph.D. from Brown University in the field of American Studies. She has taught at NYU, University of California at Santa Cruz and is now a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.

Professor Rose is most well-known for her ground-breaking book on the emergence of hip hop culture. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, published in 1994 by Wesleyan Press, has since become a classic. It is considered a foundational text for the study of hip hop, one that has defined what has eventually become a serious field of study. Black Noise won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995 and was also cons...more

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Books by Tricia Rose

Average rating: 3.85 · 388 ratings · 41 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America 3.90 avg rating — 200 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters 3.85 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy 3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s by Lydia Yee, Marysol Nieves (Foreword by), Rosalyn Deutsche 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	My rating: