Prophets of the Hood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophets of the Hood write by Imani Perry. This book was released on 2004-11-30. Prophets of the Hood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Recognizing prevailing characterizations of hip hop as a transnational musical form, Perry advances a powerful argument that hip hop is first and foremost black American music. At the same time, she contends that many studies have shortchanged the aesthetic value of rap by attributing its form and content primarily to socioeconomic factors. Her innovative analysis revels in the artistry of hip hop, revealing it as an art of innovation, not deprivation. Perry offers detailed readings of the lyrics of many hip hop artists, including Ice Cube, Public Enemy, De La Soul, krs-One, OutKast, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Tupac Shakur, Lil’ Kim, Biggie Smalls, Nas, Method Man, and Lauryn Hill. She focuses on the cultural foundations of the music and on the form and narrative features of the songs—the call and response, the reliance on the break, the use of metaphor, and the recurring figures of the trickster and the outlaw. Perry also provides complex considerations of hip hop’s association with crime, violence, and misogyny. She shows that while its message may be disconcerting, rap often expresses brilliant insights about existence in a society mired in difficult racial and gender politics. Hip hop, she suggests, airs a much wider, more troubling range of black experience than was projected during the civil rights era. It provides a unique public space where the sacred and the profane impulses within African American culture unite.
Prophets of the Hood
Prophets of the Hood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophets of the Hood write by Imani Perry. This book was released on 2004-11-30. Prophets of the Hood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVFocuses on the socially relevant aspects of Hip Hop music: its treatment of the identity of the black subject in a white society, new definitions of blackness and its commercialization./div
Prophets of the Hood
Prophets of the Hood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophets of the Hood write by Imani Perry. This book was released on 2004-11-30. Prophets of the Hood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVFocuses on the socially relevant aspects of Hip Hop music: its treatment of the identity of the black subject in a white society, new definitions of blackness and its commercialization./div
Jesus and the Hip-hop Prophets
Jesus and the Hip-hop Prophets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus and the Hip-hop Prophets write by Alex Gee. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Jesus and the Hip-hop Prophets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Teter and Alex Gee invite you to explore the world of Lauryn Hill, Tupac Shakur and the "hip-hop prophets"--following their lyrical messages to ultimate fulfillment at the feet of the Prophet-King Jesus.
More Beautiful and More Terrible
More Beautiful and More Terrible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Beautiful and More Terrible write by Imani Perry. This book was released on 2011-02-28. More Beautiful and More Terrible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perry argues that racism in America has moved into a new phase--post-intentional For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon: On the one hand, we might be hypocritical—saying one thing, and doing or believing another; on the other, it might have little to do with us individually but rather be inherent to the structure of American society. More Beautiful and More Terrible compels us to think beyond this insufficient dichotomy in order to see how racial inequality is perpetuated. Imani Perry asserts that the U.S. is in a new and distinct phase of racism that is “post-intentional”: neither based on the intentional discrimination of the past, nor drawing upon biological concepts of race. Drawing upon the insights and tools of critical race theory, social policy, law, sociology and cultural studies, she demonstrates how post-intentional racism works and maintains that it cannot be addressed solely through the kinds of structural solutions of the Left or the values arguments of the Right. Rather, the author identifies a place in the middle—a space of “righteous hope”—and articulates a notion of ethics and human agency that will allow us to expand and amplify that hope. To paraphrase James Baldwin, when talking about race, it is both more terrible than most think, but also more beautiful than most can imagine, with limitless and open-ended possibility. Perry leads readers down the path of imagining the possible and points to the way forward.
