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Hip hop speaks to children : a celebration of poetry with a beat
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- Summary
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More than 50 poems and an accompanying CD introduce poetry with a beat.
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- Creator
- editor, Nikki Giovanni ; advisory editors, Tony Medina, Willie Perdomo and Michele Scott
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 72 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9781402210488, 1402210485
- OCLC
- ocn192048048
- Credits
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- Performed by many of the original artists
- Includes index.
- Things / Eloise Greenfield -- Hip hop rules the world / Jacqueline Woodson -- I think I'll call it morning / Gil Scott-Heron -- Aloneness / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The girls in the circle / Nikki Giovanni -- From "Ham n eggs" / A tribe called Quest -- Music for fun and profit / Gary Soto -- Audition / Hope Anita Smith -- from "Hey Mama" / Kanye West -- Dream Boogie / Langston Hughes -- Funky snowman / Calef Brown -- Oh words / "Rapper's delight" / Sugarhill Gang -- "Ladies first" / Queen Latifah -- People equal / James Berry -- "It's love" / Jill Scott -- "Umi Says" / Mos Def -- Taking action / Dream variations / Allow me to introduce myself / Charles R. Smith, Jr. -- Me / Elizabeth Swados -- Dat dere / Oscar Brown Jr. -- Books / For word / Benjamin Zephaniah -- Waitin' on summer / Ruth Forman -- Jimmy Wall, 14, boy evangelist / Walter Dean Myers -- "Principal's office" / Young MC -- Love poem for my people / Pedro Pietri -- why some people be mad at me sometimes / Lucille Clifton -- "Love is ..." / Common -- Harlem night song / Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou -- "The Creation" / James Weldon Johnson -- Ego tripping / "No regrets" / Aesop Rock -- First signature / Angela Shannon -- No images / William Waring Cuney -- Everything is everything / Lauryn Hill -- The Rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur -- Long track blues / Sterling A. Brown -- "Talkin' all that jazz" / Stetsasonic -- We real cool / If we must die / Claude McKay -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who will cry? / Antwone Fisher -- The song of the smoke / W.E.B. DuBois -- Doubtless by Steve Ericson / The negro speaks of rivers / If we forget / Ja Jahannes -- "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King Jr
Subjects
- Children's poetry, American.
- American poetry -- African American authors.
- Poetry.
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