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Know what I mean? : reflections on hip-hop / by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z, outro by Nas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyson, Michael Eric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hip-hop.
- Rap (Music)--History and criticism.
- Rap (Music).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 171 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Describes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-74649-9
- 9786612746499
- 0-7867-2189-8
- OCLC:
- 630541997
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