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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Eric Dyson; Jay-Z; Nas, (Musician) |
| ISBN: | 9780465017164 0465017169 9780465018079 0465018076 |
| OCLC Number: | 187100370 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xxviii, 171 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | "What's beef?" : hip hop and its critics -- "How real is this?" : prisons, iPods, pimps, and the search for authentic homes -- "This dark diction has become America's addiction" : language, diaspora, and hip hop's bling economy -- "It's trendy to be the conscious MC" : culture, rhetoric, crack, and the politics of rap -- "Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent" : violence, machismo, sexism, and homophobia -- (The gender remix) "Nappy-head ho's, worse than bitch niggaz" : Don Imus, the crisis of patriarchy, and the death and rebirth of hip hop. |
| Other Titles: | Reflections on hip-hop |
| Responsibility: | by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z ; outro by Nas. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, Dyson probes the most compelling and controversial dimensions of hip-hop culture.
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