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... director of the Chicago Housing Authority. Mayor Richard Daley had cut the ribbon in 1962, with a homily on the great liberal dream of public housing; it was still thought, in that innocent time, that you could deliver the poor from their desperation by heaping up great piles of bricks and mortar around...

...William Eric Perkins Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Nation ol Islam Ideology in the Rap ol Public Enemy William Eric Perkins The racialism of the Negro is no limitation or reservation with respect to American life; it is only a constructive effort to build the obstructions...

... be said that the public is King. There is no longer such a sharp dividing line between folk and concert music, for folk music has come to the concert hall while sophisticated music can be heard and enjoyed by everyone. Radio is not the only way in which this has been accomplished. We now have...

... Harold A. Carter, Wyatt Tee Walker, and William A. Jones, Jr. The African American Church: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Martin Luther King Fellows Press, I 99 r. 103 pp. Recent debates concerning the reclamation of a " public theology" in the postmodern era are rendered suspect by their failure...

... sounding warnings warnings that had all too often gone unheeded. Year after year, we spoke of the fact that the public was making known its likes and dislikes by the simple expedient of attending, or not attending, concerts. Laymen were expressing their disapproval by writing letters to editors; artists...

... admittedly stems from the Negro, is recognized as a vital factor in American music as a whole; where two Negro symphony conductors are making frequent public appearances; where a few colored instru­ mentalists have been employed in American symphony orchestras; where at least one Negro is an active...

... by an American Negro, James A. Bland. Then, although my opening paragraphs indicated that the "St. Louis Blues" is not known to every single person in the world not even to every musician still, one must admit that its popularity has not lessened during the many years it has been before the public. Harry T...

... for theomusicology and its growing base of scholars? This reviewer's judgment is that Pollard is raising important questions about the nature of religious experience, particularly worship (public and private), questions that help us reflect on our task as theomusicologists. That is, if Pollard is able to help us...

... of the expense of production, but no one complains of the financial outlay when Beethoven's Ninth is done. It is true that Bee­ thoven's Ninth usually draws audiences, but so would a worthy Amer­ ican work if it had the same publicity "drive" that is generally ac­ corded the Ninth. One conductor pleaded...

... and created a white rap superstar with controversial fanfare !Vanilla Ice), and drawn its most militant voice from the suburbs (Public Enemy), its most faithful constituency remains the ghetto poor. Rap's origins in the black ghetto continue to influence most rapper's styles of delivery, rap's aesthetic...

... songs of the Negro are as yet unknown to the general public, it is obvious where the emphasis of these enthusiasts should be, if they are to persist in their work in Negro spirituals. There are three main sources from which these so-called "new spirituals" come. One is the surge of interest (recently...

... of the subject have been brought to public attention whereupon some Americans (as well as some outsiders) have been astonished to learn that this country, which considers itself a democracy, is actually undemocratic in many ways. There has been one important change in the manner of thinking in America. Formerly...

.... Publishing in these white-owned publications was quite a task because, as Still explained, white editors were more interested in printing material about popular musicians in the field of jazz, which he said he could 2. William Grant Still, "Still Calls Nathaniel Dett One of Our 'Cultural Pioneers/" Los...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 A Negro Symphony Orchestra Since 1937, when a Los Angeles publication mentioned the fact that one of my ideals is the realization of a Negro Symphony Orchestra so fine that it would rank with and perhaps surpass the best in the world, several...

...Sonja Peterson-Lewis Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 A Feminist Analysis ol the Defenses ol Obscene Rap Lyrics Sonja Peterson-Lewis One standing interest among persons who study the mass media is the media's potential to affect public and private behavior and attitudes. Music...

..." in prison, where they are further "used and abused till one day they are found hung, dead in a cell."6 The rap group Public Enemy also feels compelled to speak the truth, as illustrated in their "911 Is a Joke." Reportedly, Flavor Flav had a good friend who was shot, and when 911 Emergency Services...

... publication in 1904. The foreword to the hymn says: "During his years as a slave and the turbulent days of Reconstruction as the fledgling Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was facing fierce opposition, Holsey wrote the words of a hymn that captured the mood of sorrow and despair, faith and hope that was so...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Select Bibliography looks Adler, Bill. Tougher than Leather: The Authorized Biography of Run-DMC. New York: New American Library, 1987. Elliot, Keith. Rap. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1987 . George, Nelson, Sally Banes, Susan Flinker...

... seen by the public. It might have been seen by a few publishers whom the author contacted after he completed the manuscript in 1945, but their responses might have been similar to mine when I first received a copy from Rebecca T. Cureau: The manuscript is a good first draft, but it is not yet ready...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The Men behind American Music Several years ago, the director of music in the public schools of Washington, D.C., wrote a pamphlet on American music in which he said that a certain Virginia-born white composer "understands and interprets...