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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Imani Perry |
ISBN: | 0822334356 9780822334354 0822334461 9780822334460 |
OCLC Number: | 802700929 |
Notes: | Na s. tyt. rok wyd. 2004. |
Awards: | Winner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Nonfiction) 2005 |
Description: | x, 236, [2] s. ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Hip Hop's Mama: Originalism and Identity in the Music 92. My Mic Sound Nice: Art, Community, and Consciousness 383. Stinging Like Tabasco: Structure and Format in Hip Hop Compositions 584. The Glorious Outlaw: Hip Hop Narratives, American Law, and the Court of Public Opinion 1025. B-Boys, Players, and Preachers: Reading Masculinity 1176. The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto: Negotiating Spaces for Women 1557. Bling Bling...and Going Pop: Consumerism and Co-optation in Hip Hop 191Notes 205Index 223 |
Responsibility: | Imani Perry. |
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"Imani Perry's Prophets of the Hood is an extraordinary and brilliant book. Eschewing a rigid division between the 'positive' and 'negative' in hip hop, she takes the discussion of rap to new depths and greater heights with a probing analysis of the poetic and political dimensions of the art form. With lucid explanations, crisp writing, and sharp analysis, Perry has managed to actually say some very important things in a strikingly fresh manner. With the storytelling skills of Nas, the passion of Tupac, the lyrical dexterity of Lauryn Hill, the verbal mastery of Talib Kweli, and the conceptual acuity of krs-One, Perry has produced a stunning, magnificent work of art."-Michael Eric Dyson, author of Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur "Imani Perry has written the most subtle and nuanced treatment of hip hop that I know. Her complex view of hip hop as black democratic space subject to prophetic utterance and mainstream cooptation is powerful. Her call for the local engagement and global vision of the underground to revitalize hip hop is compelling. Her seminal work should silence all naive or ignorant trashers of this vital cultural form!"-Cornel West, Princeton University "Prophets of the Hood is the most comprehensive and intellectually original study to date of hip hop as a complex and innovative literary narrative form. Written with a refreshing blend of savvy critical rigor and brave and imaginative narrative verve, Imani Perry's study is an impressive analysis of late-twentieth-century American popular culture."-Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University Read more...

