id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_y4gmicgr5nc5xdbwtkovcwvm7u DEBRA J. ROSENTHAL 'Hoods and the Woods: Rap Music as Environmental Literature 2006.0 19 .pdf application/pdf 6150 524 66 describes the natural history of place;2 indeed, various artists and subgenres narrate different regions and urban spaces: 2 Live Crew in An important symbol in African American literature and culture, the city at once represents black opportunity and Rap, as a genre of African American literary production and performance, presents complicated views of the city: some condition of the built environment and an African American ''ecological way of seeing.''6 According to Mtume ya Salaam, before 1989, rap description of place in rap music? then perhaps we can see another link between rap music and mainstream environmental literature. With its emphasis on the built environment and humans' relationship to the nonhuman world, rap music can indeed fulfill Buell's requirements for ecologically oriented literature. historicized black urban writing, then it makes sense to include rap 'Hoods and the Woods: Rap Music as Environmental Literature 'Hoods and the Woods: Rap Music as Environmental Literature ./cache/work_y4gmicgr5nc5xdbwtkovcwvm7u.pdf ./txt/work_y4gmicgr5nc5xdbwtkovcwvm7u.txt