Know What I Mean?
Reflections on Hip-hop
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Baker & Taylor
Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
Perseus Publishing
Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
Perseus Publishing
America’s foremost ?hip-hop intellectual” and acclaimed biographer of Marvin Gaye and Tupac Shakur
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Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
Perseus Publishing
Blackwell North Amer
Know What I Mean? addresses salient issues within hip hop: the creative expression of degraded youth that has garnered them global exposure; the vexed gender relations that have made rap music a lightning rod for pundits (and a scapegoat during the Don Imus-Rutgers scandal); the commercial explosion that has made an art form a victim of its success; the political elements that have been submerged in the most popular form of hip hop; and the need for increased intellectual engagement with some of hip hop's most influential figures.
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Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
Perseus Publishing
America’s foremost ?hip-hop intellectual” and acclaimed biographer of Marvin Gaye and Tupac Shakur weighs in on the past, present, and future of hip-hop music
Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed ?the Hip-Hop Intellectual” by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, Michael Eric Dyson is uniquely situated to probe the most compelling and controversial dimensions of hip-hop culture. Know What I Mean? addresses salient issues within hip hop: the creative expression of degraded youth that has garnered them global exposure; the vexed gender relations that have made rap music a lightning rod for pundits; the commercial explosion that has made an art form a victim of its success; the political elements that have been submerged in the most popular form of hip hop; and the intellectual engagement with some of hip hop’s most influential figures. In spite of changing trends, both in the music industry and among the intelligentsia, Dyson has always supported and interpreted this art that bloomed unwatered, and in many cases, unwanted from our inner cities. For those who wondered what all the fuss is about in hip hop, Dyson’s bracing and brilliant book breaks it all down.
Blackwell North Amer
Know What I Mean? addresses salient issues within hip hop: the creative expression of degraded youth that has garnered them global exposure; the vexed gender relations that have made rap music a lightning rod for pundits (and a scapegoat during the Don Imus-Rutgers scandal); the commercial explosion that has made an art form a victim of its success; the political elements that have been submerged in the most popular form of hip hop; and the need for increased intellectual engagement with some of hip hop's most influential figures.
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Authors:
Dyson, Michael Eric
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Michael Eric Dyson
Title:
Know what I mean?
reflections on hip-hop
reflections on hip-hop
Publisher:
New York :, Basic Civitas ;, [London :, Perseus Running, distributor],, 2007
Characteristics:
xviii, 171 p. ;,20 cm.
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