Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 222 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
081471613X
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0814716121
Content:
Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism. Interweaving songs and personal interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Rosa Clemente, manager of dead prez, and Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Cheney links late twentieth-century hip-hop nationalists with their nineteenth-century spiritual forebears. Cheney examines Black nationalism as an ideology historically inspired by a crisis of masculinity. Challenging simplistic notions of hip-hop culture as s
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. From the Revolutionary War to the " Revolutionary Generation"; 2. " We Men Ain't We?"; 3. Brothers Gonna Work It Out; 4. Ladies First?; 5. Representin' God; 6. Be True to the Game; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814716120
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brothers Gonna Work It Out : Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism
Language:
English
