Jay-Z: Essays on Hip Hop's Philosopher King
- Editor: Bailey, Julius
offers a strong pedagogical tool for introducing readers to the socially urgent and complex issues that hip-hop has always evoked...at the end of each essay, questions are included for further... — More…
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$22.50Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments viii
- Foreword: On Jay-Z and Hip Hop Studies
- CORNEL WEST
- Introduction: In Search of Meaning: Sign, Symbol, and Shawn
- JULIUS BAILEY
- Part I: The Groundwork
- 1. Jigga Speaks: The Tradition of Black Oratorical Genius
- TONI BLACKMAN
- 2. The Authentic Cultural Agent
- G. JAHWARA GIDDINGS
- 3. The Meeting with a President and a “King”
- DAVEYD
- 4. A Urban Singer of Tales: The Freestyle Remixing of an Afro-Homeric Oral Tradition
- NICOLE HODGES PERSLEY
- 5. The Prodigal God and the Legacy of Socially Responsible Hip
- T. HASAN JOHNSON
- Part II: The Challenges
- 6. Zen and the Art of Transcending the Status Quo: The Reach from the Hood to the Suburbs
- BAKARI KITWANA
- 7. Black Marketing Whiteness: From Hustler to HNIC
- STEPHANY ROSE
- 8. A Forty Million Slave’s Moment of Clarity
- DAYLAN DUFELMEIER
- 9. Hip Hop’s Prospects for Womanist Masculinity
- MELINA ABDULLAH
- Part III: The Classroom Freestyles
- 10. Complicating Shawn Carter: Race, the Code, and the Politics of School
- DAVID STOVALL
- 11. Oedipus-Not-So-Complex: A Blueprint for Literary Education
- A.D. CARSON
- 12. The Culture Industry: Mainstream Success and Black Cultural Representation
- GIL COOK
- 13. The Self-Reliant Philosopher King: Shawn Carter Exonerated
- SHA’DAWN BATTLE
- About the Contributors
- Index