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- 12. Signifying Rappers ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Foster Wallace Born: February 21, 1962 at Ithaca, New York, US Died: September 12, 2008 at Claremont, California Occupation: novelist, short story writer, essayist, college professor Genre: Literary fiction, Non-fiction Literary Movement: Postmodern Literature, Post-postmodernism, Histerical Realism Period: 1987-2008
- 13. David Foster Wallace “He is one of the main writers who brought ambition, a sense of play, a joy in storytelling and an exuberant experimentalism of form back to the novel in the late '80s and early 1990s.” – David Ulin, Times Book Editor
- 14. Signifying Rappers THE MAKING David Foster Wallace returned to school in the hopes of becoming an academic philosopher, like his dad, and he asked his old Amherst College roommate and best friend, Mark Costello, to rejoin him. Wallace was a machine of words during this time, and Costello was a writer who was doing a job that wasn’t writing. By summer, Wallace was leaving out a partly written essay he was writing on rap music—he may have undertaken it on his own or it may have been solicited by Antaeus—and inviting Costello to add responses. Including Costello was kind, but it was also desperate: grad school was approaching in the fall, and Wallace had no idea how to finish the work. Costello remembers his roommate writing twenty-five hundred words in a day and then tearing them up. They collaborated, section by section, short calls and responses, the article extending into a book.
- 15. Authors Mark Costello, David Foster Wallace Country United States Language English Publisher Little, Brown and Company Publication Date July 23, 2013 Pages 153 Preceded by Girl with Curious Hair Followed by Infinite Jest Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present is a nonfiction book by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello. The book explores this music's history as it intersects with historical events, either locally and unique to Boston, or in larger cultural or historical contexts.
- 16. Signifying Rappers TITLE Based on the track "Signifying Rapper" on the album Smoke Some Kill by Schoolly D. Whas up Whas goin on Before we start this next record I gotta put my shades on So I can feel cool Remember that law? When you had to put your shades on to feel cool? Well it's still a law Gotta put your shades on So you can feel cool I'm gonna put my shades on So I can't see What you aint doin And you aint doin nothin
- 17. Signifying Rappers TITLE Based on the track "Signifying Rapper" on the album Smoke Some Kill by Schoolly D. You aint doin nothin That I [unintelligible] Well let's get on with this [bleep] anyway: Say it loud I'm black and I'm proud Say it loud I'm black and I'm proud! Say it loud I'm mmm hum proud Say it loud Mum hum hum proud! Black is beautiful Brown is [sick? slick? stiff?] Yellow's OK But white aint shit.
- 18. Signifying Rappers SUMMARY Finally back in print—David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and long-time friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The 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? Back 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.
- 19. Signifying Rappers REVIEWS “Costello and Wallace’s pioneering study is a dazzling performance: informative, provocative, funny, brilliantly written… great wit, insight and in-your-face energy” – Review of Contemporary Fiction “Both a cogent explication of rap and a cutting, revealing parody of overinflated, pseudointellectual rap criticism.” – Seattle Weekly "Self-conscious about their outsider status and given to lamenting how hard it is to get people on the rap scene to talk to dorky white people...Mark Costello and David Foster Wallace have nonetheless delivered...the only theoretically interesting book on rap.“ – The Village Voice “…We get a vivid picture of rap's real-life context in an area of poverty, drugs and various types of radical activity, an environment closed to upscale whites by the barriers of fear and oppression.” – Publisher’s Weekly
- 20. “Rap’s here-and-now is always here-and- now; a music without a future tense can’t but be immortal.”