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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Screwed and Chopped
Description: Since the 1990s, many of Houstonâs African American residents have customized cars and customized the sound of hip hop. Cars called âslabsâ swerve a slow path through the city streets, banging out a distinctive local music that paid tribute to those very same streets and neighborhoods.Folklorist and Houston native Langston Collin Wilkins studies slab culture and the âscrewed and choppedâ hip hop that rattles the slabs and serves as the cultureâs soundtrack. Wilkins shows us how sonic creativity turns a spaceâa collection of buildings and streetsâinto a place that is known, respected, and loved.In t...