Old in the Game: Aging in and with Hip-Hop Volume 8
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The first study of hip-hop and aging, featuring insights from over twenty hip-hop pioneers and veterans.
Hip-hop is now in its sixth decade. How are the culture's oldest innovators aging in, and with, hip-hop? In In Old in the Game, Murray Forman examines how hip-hop artists, audiences, and entrepreneurs negotiate the cultural process of aging.
Featuring commentary from hip-hop pioneers Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, and Sha-Rock as well as veterans like Chuck D, LL Cool J, Ice-T, Pepa, and Yo-Yo, Forman reveals age as an essential component of identity and a mode of expression through which hip-hop-identified heads comprehend the world and present themselves. The book covers themes of generational difference and dissonance, ageism, memory and nostalgia, and retirement and death and offers a new way of understanding hip-hop as generations of hip-hop elders come of age, mature, and learn to grow old within the culture.
Murray Forman is Professor Emeritus of Media and Screen Studies at Northeastern University and is author of The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop.
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