{"product_id":"camp-los-uptown-saturday-night-by-patrick-rivers-9781501322723","title":"Camp Lo's Uptown Saturday Night","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo. These two emcees from the Bronx, NY entered the American hip hop scene with an insider slang that bewildered listeners as they radiated the look of a bygone era of black culture. In 1996, they collaborated with producer Ski and a host of other contributors to create \u003ci\u003eUptown Saturday Night\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring the seminal single “Luchini (a.k.a. This is It).”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile other 1990s rappers referred to 1970s Blaxploitation culture, Camp Lo were self-described \"time travellers\" who weaved the slang and style of a soulful past into state-of-the-art lyrical flows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUptown Saturday Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a tapestry of 1970s black popular culture and 1990s New York City hip hop. This volume will detail how the album’s fantastic world of “Coolie High” reflected classic films like \u003ci\u003eCooley High\u003c\/i\u003e and the Sidney Poitier film from which the album’s title is derived, and promoted vintage slang and fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book features new interviews with Camp Lo, producer Ski, Trugoy the Dove from De La Soul, Ish from Digable Planets, and others, and offers musical and cultural analyses that detail the development of the album and its essential contributions to a post-soul aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462666961132,"sku":"9781501322723","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781501322723-camp-lo-s-uptown-saturday-night.jpg?v=1775020835","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/camp-los-uptown-saturday-night-by-patrick-rivers-9781501322723","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}