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...Marcyliena Morgan 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Marcyliena Morgan Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil: Race and Class in Popular Feminist Identity Until the late 1950s, one of America’s worst- kept secrets was its repression of blacks...

... political scientists tend to develop. This chapter uses hip-hop lyricism to measure how the concept of theft appears in the political philosophy of Malcolm X against the way this strategy for resource redistribution is discussed in the films The Departed and Scarface as a way to enrich political theory...

.... The soundtrack to all this head spinning and 7-Up drinking was an electrosynthesized hip-hop, with lots of outer space imagery, sounds and styles borrowed from the year s other rage, video games, and featuring a burbling, steady electronic pulse (Jonzun Crew s Pack Jam is the most obvious example...

...-income urban caldron and the highest level of privileged society. Icon, an exemplar of Afrofuturism that sweeps antebellum memo­ ries, hip-hop culture, and cyberpunk into its compass, warrants de­ tailed exegesis. The story begins in 1839, when an escape pod jetti­ soned from an exploding alien...

.... Proclaiming its own position as surfing the New Edge of a novel and electronically configured social formation called cyberculture, M2 dubbed its (mostly male) readers mondoids and invited them to cruise the datascape, ride the electronic range, hip-hop their laptop, vacation in virtual reality, dine...

... STREET represented the cool art of the street, subcultural undercurrents of the metropolis, and the raw skill of ghetto boys and girls. And, true to its projected image, STREET was located in Kreuzberg, the ghetto, with a touch of hip and avant-garde. During the festival, various rap and graffiti...

... contemporaries were coining hip-hop 6488 SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 100:1 / sheet 296 of 327 and ragga lyrics. Within a short few months, authors with names such as ‘‘Q’’ (for ‘‘Quality were, à la X Press, hawking their self-published books outside...

... of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations (1994). She is currently completing a book on hip-hop culture, The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the Underground. vijay prashad is the author of eight books, most recently Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses...

... is currently completing Drifting on a Read, 940 Notes on Contributors an investigation of jazz as a model of rhetorical invention ( euretics alan light is a Staff Writer at Rolling Stone, where he has written about virtually every major figure in the world of hip-hop. A 1988 graduate of Yale University, he...

... from any number of publics—the black radical tradition, the civil rights main- stream, the church, “the community,” or whatever it is we call these days the hip-hop public. The point for left optimism is, again, the greatly revital- ized erotics of attachment to the activity of politics...

... the Twilight Zone to the X-Files . Westport, CT : Greenwood . Boondocks . 2006 . “ The Return of the King .” January 15 . Boyd Todd . 2002 . The New H.N.I.C. (Head Niggas in Charge): The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop . New York : New York University Press . Byrd...

... any other, about as rebellious as taking a business degree and, if you got lucky, more lucrative. Your accountant was likely to be as hip as your lead singer. And far from resisting the marketing demands made of them, artists seemed to be tripping over themselves in their eagerness to sell out...

...-style hip gyration one minute, then grasp the microphone in a Sinatra-style pose the next. Similarly, acclaimed lesbian performer Peggy Shaw pays homage to such outlaw stars as James Cagney and Willie Nelson in her one-woman performance piece You Look Just Like My Father, which she also wrote...

...— visual or oral. It is simply a very bold interpretation of some critical aspects of life in deindustrialized northern inner cities, warts and all. In many ways hip-hop is a modern version of what Hitler and Goebbels denounced as Neger-jazz, fit to be consumed only by the Asphaltliteraten—that is to say...

... of hayseed hassles, it s always fun to leap out of the car covered in lace and demand the location of the closest rare book shop. Back then, the hip log-telegraph was pounding out signals in London and New York City. Some provincial ears were standing up, and with those ears arose the spirit of aesthetic...

... public and academic discussion of modern acid culture. The commonplace usage of the term today belies the fact that the author exhumed this formerly obscure piece of jargon from the depths of sociological theory to deflect attention away from the central role occupied by psychedelics within the hip...

... the relative measure of his attention he has allotted an initial capital to the word. The Back is qualified descriptively by the word hip/popot/amus (5-7), enough in itself to give the idea of overstuffed girth. But by breaking the word into parts the poet has managed to provide applicable puns as component...

... in diameter The lady was lying on her back, and my brother was kneeling between her feet, his left hand lying limply over his left knee. Beside her hip, his head...

... hours, if guarded by the faithful; 7, When halted or challenged by a federal picket or sentinel the countersign was Jack. The sentinel would then reply, All right, Jack, pass on with your goose quills; 8, In battle the sign was made by placing the butt of the gun against the right hip and inclining...

... rock culture. Harris was uncompromis­ ing in her love and respect for all forms of traditional country music, but she also had impeccable hip/rock credentials, having sung with California country-rock star Gram Parsons, who died of the effects of alcohol and drug abuse in 1973. Harris's success...