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Born to use mics : reading Nas's Illmatic

Title: Born to use mics : reading Nas's Illmatic / edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai.
Publication: New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2010.

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Description

xi, 308 p.; 21 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

It was signified : "the genesis" / by Adilfu Nama -- A rebel to America : "N.Y. state of mind" after the towers fell / by Sohail Daulatzai -- Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son / by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. -- "It's yours" : hip-hop worldviews in the lyrics of Nas / by James Braxton Peterson -- Critical pedagogy comes at halftime : Nas as black public intellectual / by Marc Lamont Hill -- "Memory lane" : on jazz, hip-hop, and fathers / by Mark Anthony Neal -- "One love," two brothers, thre verses / by Michael Eric Dyson -- "One time 4 your mind" : embedding Nas and hip-hop into a gendered state of mind / by Kyra D. Gaunt -- "Represent," Queensbridge, and the art of living / by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. -- "It ain't hard to tell" : a story of lyrical transcendence / by Imani Perry.

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Sc E 10-739

ISBN

9780465002115 (alk. paper)
0465002110 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008007435

OCLC

192134593

Title

Born to use mics : reading Nas's Illmatic / edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai.

Imprint

New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Dyson, Michael Eric.

Daulatzai, Sohail.

Research Call Number

Sc E 10-739

*LE 10-2716

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