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The decade from 1993 to 2003 was the period during which hip-hop rose from an urban subculture to a multi-billion-dollar industry, whose styles and sound have affected every aspect of worldwide popular culture. One magazine led the way in chronicling this hip-hop revolution: VIBE. Launched by Quincy Jones in 1993, VIBE soon became the fastest-growing music magazine in history. Envisioning a multicultural future that has since become a reality, VIBE ushered in a new kind of celebrity: stars who challenged showbiz conventions and spoke to issues of race and identity. VIBE was the first magazine to profile future megastars like Snoop Doggy Dogg, Puff Daddy, and Mary J. Blige, while continuing to embrace pop royalty like Michael Jackson, Prince, Britney Spears, and Destiny's Child. The magazine also connected hip hop to the larger tradition of black music and the broader culture that informed it, with revealing profiles of figures like Al Green, Jennifer Lopez, movie stars like Will Smith, comedians like Chris Rock and Richard Pryor, sports figures like Shaquille O'Neal, and cultural icons like Oprah Winfrey and Louis Farrakhan. As part of the celebration of VIBE's 10th anniversary, the magazine's editors have gathered together some of the most powerful and compelling images ever to appear in the magazine, along with a selection of never-before-seen shots and outtakes. These photos showcase the work of some of the best contemporary photographers, and include images from Tupac Shakur in a straight jacket and the members of TLC in firemen's outfits (for an article in which Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes admitted to burning down her boyfriend's mansion) to candid shots of a porn star clutching a teddy bear and a resident of Watts, L.A. just getting through the day. VX: Ten Years of VIBE Photography will be the definitive photography book for the hip-hop generation.
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Martin Egan
reviewed VX on November 23, 2009 VX
Caveat one: This is a textbook. You won't like reading it if you don't like reading textbooks.
Caveat two: Goodreads lists the author incorrectly!! How do I fix that?
I found this book while doing some online research on the origin of the blues for my short story, "The Origin of the Blues" - rather what it says on the tin. Obviously, I found the sections on the blues to be the most interesting, as well as the beginning section with all its tantalizingly scant evidence for the very first music of African Americans. I also have a great fondness for the music of the 20s, so that section was riveting. It's nice to own a textbook, because I highlighted and underlined a lot toward the beginning and almost all of the blues section. I would recommend this as a good first resource if you're looking to explore any African American music topic in depth as it has an excellent bibliography. Of course, being a survey history, it doesn't go into depth itself. Time and again I got all excited about a hint of intrigue - a popular singer shot in a speakeasy. What? Why? Oh, now we're on to discussing the next popular singer.
It has provided me with a list of topics to explore in more detail in the academic library I have access too, as well as more ideas for my short story, which may be too short to hold them all.
I also got excited every time Cleveland was mentioned, which seemed to peak in the 20s and 30s. Ah, that's my town. We used to be someplace. Oberlin Conservatory gets a lot of mention, and the Cleveland Symphony and CIM get mentioned in the later chapters. (Here ends the section only interesting to Cleveland residents.)
I felt the book kinda fell down on the later chapters - I don't think the author was quite as interested in modern music as she was in jazz and gospel. The paltry paragraphs on rhythm and blues and rock in particular disappointed, though there is at least a few pages on the origins of rap. I wonder if a later edition wouldn't have more about rock and a longer exploration of the origins of rap and hip-hop.
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