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Author Dyson, Michael Eric.

Title Know what I mean? [electronic resource] : reflections on hip-hop / by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z, outro by Nas.

Imprint New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxviii, 171 p.
Note Includes index.
Contents "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.
Summary Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
Hip-hop.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780465017164 (hc)
0465017169 (hc)

 
    
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