The new H.N.I.C. (head niggas in charge) [[electronic resource] ] : the death of civil rights and the reign of hip hop / / Todd Boyd

• Autore: Boyd Todd
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/073
• Soggetto topico: Hip-hop; African American youth - Social life and customs; African American youth - Social conditions; African American youth - Political activity; African Americans - Civil rights; African Americans - Intellectual life; African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social life and customs 1971-; United States Social conditions 1980-2020; United States Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Who We Be: Introducin’ the New H.N.I.C. -- 1. No Time for Fake Niggas -- 2. Brothas Gonna Work It Out -- 3. Can’t Knock the Hustle -- 4. Head Nigga in Charge -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary of Hip Hop Terms -- Shout Outs -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: When Lauryn Hill stepped forward to accept her fifth Grammy Award in 1999, she paused as she collected the last trophy, and seeming somewhat startled said, “This is crazy, ‘cause this is hip hop music.’“ Hill’s astonishment at receiving mainstream acclaim for music once deemed insignificant testifies to the explosion of this truly revolutionary art form. Hip hop music and the culture that surrounds it--film, fashion, sports, and a whole way of being--has become the defining ethos for a generation. Its influence has spread from the state’s capital to the nation’s capital, from the Pineapple to the Big Apple, from ‘Frisco to Maine, and then on to Spain. But moving far beyond the music, hip hop has emerged as a social and cultural movement, displacing the ideas of the Civil Rights era. Todd Boyd maintains that a new generation, having grown up in the aftermath of both Civil Rights and Black Power, rejects these old school models and is instead asserting its own values and ideas. Hip hop is distinguished in this regard because it never attempted to go mainstream, but instead the mainstream came to hip hop. The New H.N.I.C., like hip hop itself, attempts to keep it real, and challenges conventional wisdom on a range of issues, from debates over use of the “N-word,” the comedy of Chris Rock, and the “get money” ethos of hip hop moguls like Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Russell Simmons, to hip hop’s impact on a diverse array of figures from Bill Clinton and Eminem to Jennifer Lopez. Maintaining that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is less important today than DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot, Boyd argues that Civil Rights as a cultural force is dead, confined to a series of media images frozen in another time. Hip hop, on the other hand, represents the vanguard, and is the best way to grasp both our present and future.
• Titolo autorizzato: The new H.N.I.C. (head niggas in charge)
• ISBN: 0-8147-0906-0; 1-4175-8815-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819782703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II