Rap music and street consciousness / Cheryl L. Keyes.
Cheryl Lynette Keyes
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Know what I mean? [electronic resource]
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Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
| Title |
Know what I mean? [electronic resource] : reflections on hip-hop / by Michael Eric Dyson intro by Jay-Z, outro by Nas. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
New York : Basic Civitas Books |
| Creation Date |
c2007 |
| Notes |
Includes index. English |
| Content |
"What's the 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 -- "Nappy-head ho's, worse than bitch niggaz" : Don Imus, the crisis of patriarchy, and the death and rebirth of hip hop. |
| Extent |
xxviii, 171 p. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997012369295105171 |
MARC RECORDS
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