{"product_id":"book-b67d","title":"Signifying Rappers","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.\u003c\/b\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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349723980080,"sku":"BDb67d","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/b67d-cover.jpg?v=1761948622","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-b67d","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}