ISBN:
081471613X
,
0814716121
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 222 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Brothers Gonna Work It Out : Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism
DDC:
306.4/84249/08996073
Keywords:
Sex role
;
African American men Attitudes
;
Masculinity
;
Black nationalism History
;
Rap (Music) Political aspects
;
African American men - Attitudes
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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