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AuthorDyson, Michael Eric.TitleKnow what I mean? : reflections on hip-hop / by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z, outro by Nas.PublishedNew York : Basic Civitas Books, c2007.FormatBook
Descriptionxxviii, 171 p. ; 22 cm.

LinkContributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2008273091-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2008273091-d.html
Gen. noteIncludes index.
Contents|"What’s 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 --| |(The gender remix) "Nappy-head ho’s, worse than bitch niggaz" : Don Imus, the crisis of patriarchy, and the death and rebirth of hip hop.|
AbstractDescribes social, cultural, and political aspects of hip-hop music through dialogues with academic scholars and documentary filmmakers.
ISBN9780465017164 (hc)0465017169 (hc)SubjectRap (Music) -- History and criticism.
Hip-hop.
Rap music -- History and criticism.

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