Born to Use Mics
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Michael Eric Dyson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Civitas Books

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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
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Michael Eric Dyson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-05 - Publisher: Civitas Books

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Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as
Black Star, Crescent Moon
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Sohail Daulatzai
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Linking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to anticolonial revolution in Algeria, Egypt, and elsewhere, Black leaders in the United States have fre
Rap Music and Street Consciousness
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Cheryl Lynette Keyes
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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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 danc
My Infamous Life
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Albert "Prodigy" Johnson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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"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 stree