Know what I mean? : reflections on hip-hop / / by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z, outro by Nas
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| Autore: |
Dyson Michael Eric
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| Titolo: |
Know what I mean? : reflections on hip-hop / / by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z, outro by Nas
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Basic Civitas Books, , [2007] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 171 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 781.649 |
| Soggetto topico: | Hip-hop |
| Rap (Music) - History and criticism | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Jay-Z <1969-> |
| Nas (Musician) | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Description based upon print version of record. | |
| Nota di contenuto: | "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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Know what I mean |
| ISBN: | 1-282-74649-9 |
| 9786612746499 | |
| 0-7867-2189-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248283003316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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