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Recommend this profile to your Facebook friends. personal messageMichael Eric Dyson, one of America's foremost cultural critics and acclaimed biographer of music greats such as Tupac Shakur and Marvin Gaye, weighs in on the past, present and future of hip hop music in: KNOW WHAT I MEAN? Reflections on Hip Hop (pub. date: July 10, 2007) with a rare and special introduction by JAY Z and an afterword by Nas two of the genre's most iconic artists who have put aside any remaining differences to help Dyson set the record straight on hip hop.
Hip hop has been deeply embroiled in controversy in the aftermath of the infamous Imus "nappy-headed ho" debacle involving the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Dyson, being the omnipresent cultural critic that he is, brilliantly dissects the issues surrounding Imus' ill-fated comment and the sociological and political fallout from the incident, deftly portraying the gender and racial elements of the controversy while relating it to older currents of black female antipathy in mainstream and black culture. Dyson helps us understand how the outrage over Imus' firing (while black male rappers spew misogynistic lyrics) did little to highlight the deplorable plight of black women. Dyson probes the social and racial wellsprings of the assault on black female identity while insisting on ridding the culture of the roots of sexism including in corporate America and the black church. As KNOW WHAT I MEAN? amply displays, Dyson has been wrestling with gender and politics in hip hop long before the Imus affair. Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has both condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. In spite of the changing trends, both in the music industry and amongst the intelligentsia, Dyson has always supported and interpreted this art that bloomed unwatered, and in many cases, unwanted from our inner cities. For those who wondered what all the fuss is all about in hip hop, Dyson's bracing and brilliant book breaks it all down. Dubbed "The Hip Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans alike for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, Dyson never pauses constantly writing, speaking and preaching putting into perspective our cultural goings on. JAY Z calls Dyson "the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have," while Nas says that Dyson "writes and speaks with the same lyrical skill and rhetorical brilliance that we praise in the greatest MC's." Michael Eric Dyson is uniquely situated to probe the most compelling and controversial dimensions of hip hop culture. Michael Eric Dyson has been named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, and is the author of fourteen books, including Come Hell or High Water. Dyson is University Professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches Theology, English and African American Studies. TOUR for KNOW WHAT I MEAN? New York City 7/17 - 7/18 New York City Washington, DC 7/19 Detroit 7/20-7/23 San Francisco 7/24 - 7/25 Bay Area Los Angeles 7/26 - 7/27 Los Angeles |
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