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  • Critical Excess

    Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age

    par J. Griffith Rollefson ...
    Collections series Tracking Pop
    Jay-Z and Kanye West’s 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed “luxury rap” album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute couture. Critical Excess performs a close reading of the sonic and social commentary on this album, examining how the album alternately imagines and critiques the mutually reinforcing ideas of Europe, nobility, old money, art, and their standard ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Flip the Script

    European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

    par J. Griffith Rollefson ...
    Collections series Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
    Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles. Flip the Script offers a close look at the role of hip hop in Europe, where it has become a ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

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    Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, "inherited" from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, the Feminist Art movement, and 1980s and 1990s postmodern aesthetics. By comparing and contrasting the major motifs of the aforementioned cultural aesthetic traditions with those of hip hop culture, all the while critically ... En savoir plus

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  • Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love

    A Journey to the End of Taste

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    Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred - with most critics and committed music fans taking ... En savoir plus

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  • What Are You Doing Here?

    A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

    par Laina Dawes ...
    In her nuanced, extremely perceptive book, Laina Dawes champions the liberating possibilities of metal while questioning the color-blindness of the metal world, celebrating the role of black women in creating rock music, examining the reaction of the black community to black punks and metalheads, and sorting out the gender issues that complicate sisterhood in a male-dominated sphere. Her ... En savoir plus

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  • Born to Use Mics

    Reading Nas's Illmatic

    Modifié par Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail Daulatzai ...
    At the age of nineteen, Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album -- and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history. With its close attention to beats and lyricism, and riveting first-person explorations of the isolation and desolation of urban poverty, ... En savoir plus

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  • Know What I Mean?

    Reflections on Hip-Hop

    par Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • All about the Beat

    Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America

    par John McWhorter ...
    The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop—and why its popularity proves that black America must overhaul its politics.One of the most outspoken voices in America’s cultural dialogues, John McWhorter can always be counted on to provide provocative viewpoints steeped in scholarly savvy. Now he turns his ... En savoir plus

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  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

    Essays

    par Jesse McCarthy ...
    **2022 Whiting Award Winner for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism)Best Books of the Year: TIME, Kirkus Reviews"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." —Zadie SmithA supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.**Ranging ... En savoir plus

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  • Heavy Metal

    The Music And Its Culture

    par Deena Weinstein ...
    Few forms of music elicit such strong reactions as does heavy metal. Embraced by millions of fans, it has also attracted a chorus of critics, who have denounced it as a corrupter of youth—even blamed it for tragedies like the murders at Columbine. Deena Weinstein argues that these fears stem from a deep misunderstanding of the energetic, rebellious culture of metal, which she analyzes, explains, ... En savoir plus

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  • Can You Hear Me Now?

    The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson

    par Michael Eric Dyson ...
    "Before I wanted to write the world, I sought to right it," declares Michael Eric Dyson. As one of America's most visible, inspirational, and quotable public intellectuals, Dyson has weighed in on a vast array of issues. In his books and newspaper articles, over television and radio waves, and from podiums to pulpits, Dyson has brought awareness and insight to questions of culture, race, gender, ... En savoir plus

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  • Everything But the Burden

    What White People Are Taking from Black Culture

    par Greg Tate ...
    White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden brings together voices ... En savoir plus

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