Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People - Tapa blanda

Hoch, Danny

 
9780375753398: Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People
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ISBN 10: 0375753397 ISBN 13: 9780375753398
Editorial: Villard, 1998

Sinopsis

The creator of the HBO special Some People presents a series of trenchant, witty, and vivid monologues on the subjects of multiculturalism and compassion that brings to life such colorful characters as a white teenager who dreams of being a black gangsta rapper. Original. TV tie-in. 25,000 first printing.

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formance art, or spoken word--whatever you call it, the work of actor/writer Danny Hoch is a solo tour de force. In Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Some People, New York City's rich oral traditions come alive on the page, as Manhattan Boricua English, Brooklyn Polish, Bronx Dominican Spanish, Queens Trinidadian English, Jamaican patois, and Hip-Hop all get flipped and flexed center stage.
The range of contemporary experience on display in Hoch's monologues is astonishing: A white teenager dreams of being a black gangsta rapper. A wheelchair-bound kid explains how his mother smoked crack during pregnancy. A pale-skinned Bronx street vendor enrages a policeman who can't figure out what race he is. A young Puerto Rican man on crutches rhapsodizes about his dancing talent.
Now the thousands of fans who have enjoyed Mr. Hoch live or on HBO, as well as the many more who've only heard about him, can enjoy both Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop an

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Editorial
Villard
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0375753397
ISBN 13 
9780375753398
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
172
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