{"product_id":"9780316401111","title":"Signifying Rappers","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFinally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime 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. \u003ci\u003eSignifying Rappers\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Back in print at last, \u003ci\u003eSignifying Rappers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167325962480,"sku":"9780316401111","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316401111_p0.jpg?v=1765232942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316401111","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}