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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. M.K. Asante, Jr., a young firebrand poet, …
Post hip hop is not about the death of rap, but the birth of a new movement propelled by a paradigm shift felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in North Philadelphia and in a tattered stoop of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. This text details how hip hop has changed and how this g…
Takes a look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured rap and that is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. Asante uses hip hop as a springboard for a larger discussion about the …
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. M.K. Asante, Jr., a young firebrand poet, …
"This is where the covert war begins on a very subconscious level, in the spirit of a people who have been robbed and spoiled. Robbed of the classical spiritual teachings of our ancestors and spoiled by trading our god for the enemies' wealth. More discussions about the soul are…
Examines stereotypical definitions of black manhood and looks at how specific images and lyrics in hip hop promote these stereo-types. This work argues that negative aspects of hip hop are really affecting young black men and that artists need to be more conscious of their impac…
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, t…
A capsule history of African rap \ Eric Charry -- Pt 1. Rap stories (Ghana and South Africa). The birth of Ghanaian hiplife: urban style, black thought, proverbial speech \ Jesse Weaver Shipley; A genre coming of age : transformation, difference, and authenticity in the rap musi…