Language Arts Unit

Language Arts Unit: A Rap Textbook is an exploration of rap as theory and praxis race as form and content music as social mobilizer and opiate. In a winding discursive prefatory note Rhys Langston (Podell) utilizes a biting absurdist humor to seriously appraise the power of words music and all manner of extra-lingual connotations in the age of rapid-transit information technologies. As the written half of a multimedia project what follows are the lyrics from his long play album written as poems with the clever enjambment of his characteristically idiosyncratic wordplay. [Book includes a URL to download the full album]