In the Time of Sky-Rhyming: How Hip Hop Resonated in Brown Los Angeles

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Jonathan E. Calvillo (Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities, Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities, Candler School of Theology, Emory University)

In the Time of Sky-Rhyming

How Hip Hop Resonated in Brown Los Angeles

Jonathan E. Calvillo (Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities, Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities, Candler School of Theology, Emory University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
12 February 2025

Theory of music & musicology; Rap & Hip-Hop

Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the rise of Hip Hop on the West Coast and the integral role the Los Angeles Latine community had on the movement - and in turn, Hip Hop's impact on Latines as it became a space for community, expression, and coping with inequality. Building his narrative around interviews and oral histories, he explores how incoming migrants, local-born Latines, and other minoritized populations joined Black Americans in the 1980s to build early underground sites of Hip Hop innovation, contributing to the genre's global expansion.

The book details how Hip Hop's deep impact on Latines was based in part on the inequality, marginalization, and injustice that many Latines of this era faced - themes which were addressed in the movement. Many creatives from Brown Los Angeles found their place in early underground expressions of Hip Hop, including in breaking, rhyming, DJing, and graffiti elements. During this period, Central American refugees were settling in the urban corridors of the region, young Chicanos were coming of age in the post-civil rights era, Caribbean migrants moved from East to West, South American immigrants were finding their place, and Latines were interacting with Black Americans and other minoritized populations such as ethnic Samoans, Filipinos, and Koreans. Through the lens of Los Angeles Hip Hop history, this project speaks to the migratory flows of urban Brown Los Angeles, the relations between Black Americans and Latines in Los Angeles, and the formation of the racialized subcultures emblematic of urban Los Angeles.

In documenting this story, the book sidesteps a media-heavy, music-industry account of Hip Hop history. Instead, it privileges original oral histories and secondary accounts of dozens of artists, to present a grassroots oriented narrative of the intraethnic, interracial negotiations that fueled Latines' identification with and contributions to Hip Hop.

By: Jonathan E. Calvillo (Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities Candler School of Theology Emory University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780197762486
ISBN 10: 0197762484
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 12 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Jonathan Calvillo is Assistant Professor of Latinx Communities at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. His work examines how distinct Latinx populations build communities of belonging through spirituality and creativity, often in the face of systemic exclusion. He published his first book, The Saints of Santa Ana: Faith and Ethnicity in a Mexican Majority City (Oxford University Press), in 2020.

Reviews for In the Time of Sky-Rhyming: How Hip Hop Resonated in Brown Los Angeles

Like any great Hip Hop track that samples from the genius of its sonic predecessors to innovatively fashion something new, In the Time of Sky-Rhyming suitably builds on earlier scholarship as it charts fresh intellectual terrain by elegantly showcasing the unceasing movement of urban popular cultures. * Richard T. Rodríguez, author of A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad * Calvillo offers a compelling story of how brown creatives in search of a soundtrack for their lives helped build what became West Coast Hip Hop. This work tells us as much about their times as it does about our own and the need for 'channels of resonance' * shared beats, voices, networks, and diasporasin today's movements.Erika Gault, author of Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop * The field of Hip Hop Studies has developed into a mature, robust, and rigorous area for scholars. Yet, there has been a missing link, if you will, from the scholarship; the Latinx experience and its connection to West Coast Hip Hop Culture. Dr. Calvillo helps to fill that dearth with his new work In The Time of Sky-Rhyming. This book chronicles key elements in the Culture and allows the reader to see its deeper connections to religion, faith, and rap music. This is a sure game-changer of a text! * Dr. Daniel White Hodge, author of Hip Hop's Hostile Gospel: A Post-Soul Theological Exploration *