Description: Rap Dad : A Story of Family and the Subculture That Shaped a Generation, Paperback by Vidal, Juan, ISBN 1501169408, ISBN-13 9781501169403, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This timely reflection on male identity in America that explores the intersection of fatherhood, race, and hip-hop culture is a page-turnerdrenched in history and encompasses the energy, fire, and passion that is hip-hop (D. Watkins, New York Times bestselling author). Just as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing news: hed soon be a father. Throughout his life, neglectful men were the normhis own dad struggled with drug addiction and infidelitya cycle that, inevitably, wrought Vidal with insecurity. At age twenty-six, with barely a grip on life, what lessons could he possibly offer a kid? Determined to alter the course for his child, Vidal did what hed always done when confronted with lifes challengeshe turned to the counterculture. In Rap Dad, the musician-turned-journalist takes a thoughtful and inventive approach to exploring identity and examining how todays society views fatherhood. To root out the source of his fears around parenting, Vidal revisits the flash points of his juvenescence, a feat that transports him, a first-generation American born to Colombian parents, back to the drug-fueled streets of 1980s90s Miami. Its during those pivotal years that hes drawn to skateboarding, graffiti, and the music of rebellion: hip-hop. As he looks to the past for answers, he infuses his personal story with rap lyrics and interviews with some of pop cultures most compelling voicesplenty of whom have proven to be some of societys best, albeit nontraditional, dads. Along the way, Vidal confronts the unfair stereotypes that taint urban menespecially Black and Latino men. A heartfelt examination of the damage that wayward fathers can leave in their wake (The Washington Post), Rap Dad is rich with symbolisma poetic chronicle of beats, rhymes, and life (NPR).
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Book Title: Rap Dad : a Story of Family and the Subculture That Shaped a Generation
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, Parenting / Fatherhood, Personal Memoirs, Popular Culture
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Music, Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Juan Vidal
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
