Born to Use Mics
Title | Born to Use Mics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Eric Dyson |
Publisher | Civitas Books |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0465002110 |
Academic essays reflect on the 1994 album Illmatic by Nasir "Nas" Jones, covering topics ranging from jazz history to gender.
Holler If You Hear Me (2006)
Title | Holler If You Hear Me (2006) PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Eric Dyson |
Publisher | Civitas Books |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2006-09-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0786735481 |
With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested, and celebrated than he was in life. His posthumously released albums, poetry, and motion pictures have catapulted him into the upper echelon of American cultural icons. In Holler If You Hear Me, “hip-hop intellectual” Michael Eric Dyson, acclaimed author of the bestselling Is Bill Cosby Right?, offers a wholly original way of looking at Tupac that will thrill those who already love the artist and enlighten those who want to understand him.
Black Star, Crescent Moon
Title | Black Star, Crescent Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Sohail Daulatzai |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0816675864 |
Linking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to anticolonial revolution in Algeria, Egypt, and elsewhere, Black leaders in the United States have frequently looked to the anti-imperialist movements and antiracist rhetoric of the Muslim Third World for inspiration. Daulatzai maps the shared history between Black Muslims, Black radicals, and the Muslim Third World, showing how Black artists and activists imagined themselves not as national minorities but as part of a global majority, connected to larger communities of resistance. From publisher description.
Rap Music and Street Consciousness
Title | Rap Music and Street Consciousness PDF eBook |
Author | Cheryl Lynette Keyes |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780252072017 |
In this first musicological history of rap music, Cheryl L. Keyes traces the genre's history from its roots in West African bardic traditions, the Jamaican dancehall tradition, and African American vernacular expressions to its permeation of the cultural mainstream as a major tenet of hip-hop lifestyle and culture. Rap music, according to Keyes, is a forum that addresses the political and economic disfranchisement of black youths and other groups, fosters ethnic pride, and displays culture values and aesthetics. Blending popular culture with folklore and ethnomusicology, Keyes offers a nuanced portrait of the artists, themes, and varying styles reflective of urban life and street consciousness. Drawing on the music, lives, politics, and interests of figures including Afrika Bambaataa, the "godfather of hip-hop," and his Zulu Nation, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Grandmaster Flash, Kool "DJ" Herc, MC Lyte, LL Cool J, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Ice-T, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and The Last Poets, Rap Music and Street Consciousness challenges outsider views of the genre. The book also draws on ethnographic research done in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and London, as well as interviews with performers, producers, directors, fans, and managers. Keyes's vivid and wide-ranging analysis covers the emergence and personas of female rappers and white rappers, the legal repercussions of technological advancements such as electronic mixing and digital sampling, the advent of rap music videos, and the existence of gangsta rap, Southern rap, acid rap, and dance-centered rap subgenres. Also considered are the crossover careers of rap artists in movies and television; rapper-turned-mogul phenomenons such as Queen Latifah; the multimedia empire of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs; the cataclysmic rise of Death Row Records; East Coast versus West Coast tensions; the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace; and the unification efforts of the Nation of Islam and the Hip-Hop Nation.
My Infamous Life
Title | My Infamous Life PDF eBook |
Author | Albert "Prodigy" Johnson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2012-02-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439103194 |
"A memoir about a life almost lost and a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's golden era ... a story of struggle, survival, and hope down the mean streets of New York City"--Dust flap jacket.
And We Are Not Saved
Title | And We Are Not Saved PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Bell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2008-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 078672269X |
A distinguished legal scholar and civil rights activist employs a series of dramatic fables and dialogues to probe the foundations of America’s racial attitudes and raise disturbing questions about the nature of our society.
Tupac Equals The Outlawz of Mic And Men
Title | Tupac Equals The Outlawz of Mic And Men PDF eBook |
Author | T. Ursula Green |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Total Pages | 89 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 177097136X |
Lived and Died. Born before his time, Tattooed with "Thug Life" no shame just pride. This soldier of misfortune with broken wings that flew high. He needed justice in all communities to be seen and heard not with ignorance but intelligent words. Until one night in Vegas silenced from a drive by, but just like a cat he lived all nine lives. Tupac Shakur his life was a dreamer of time....