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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

Asante, M. K., Jr.

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral SociologyHip Hop

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 0312593023
ISBN13: 9780312593025
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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 rap and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world.

M. K. Asante, Jr., a passionate young poet, professor, filmmaker, and activist who represents this new movement, uses hip hop as a springboard for a larger discussion about the urgent social and political issues affecting the hip-hop and post-hip-hop generations.

Through insightful anecdotes, scholarship, revolutionary rap lyrics, personal encounters, and conversations with youth across the globe as well as icons such as Chuck D and Maya Angelou, Asante illuminates a shift that can be felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in post-Katrina New Orleans, seen in the rise of youth-led organizations committed to social justice, and heard around the world chanting It's bigger than hip hop.

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