Jay-Z: Essays on Hip Hop's Philosopher King [11 ed.] 9780786463299
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments viii
Foreword: On Jay-Z and Hip Hop Studies
CORNEL WEST 1
Introduction: In Search of Meaning: Sign, Symbol, and Shawn
JULIUS BAILEY 3
Part I: The Groundwork
1. Jigga Speaks: The Tradition of Black Oratorical Genius TONI BLACKMAN 25
2. The Authentic Cultural Agent G. JAHWARA GIDDINGS 39
3. The Meeting with a President and a “King” DAVEY D 52
4. A Urban Singer of Tales: The Freestyle Remixing of an Afro-Homeric Oral Tradition
NICOLE HODGES PERSLEY 67
5. The Prodigal God and the Legacy of Socially Responsible Hip Hop
T. HASAN JOHNSON 84
Part II: The Challenges
6. Zen and the Art of Transcending the Status Quo: The Reach from the Hood to the Suburbs
BAKARI KITWANA 99
7. Black Marketing Whiteness: From Hustler to HNIC STEPHANY ROSE 117
8. A Forty Million Slave’s Moment of Clarity DAYLAN DUFELMEIER 132
9. Hip Hop’s Prospects for Womanist Masculinity MELINA ABDULLAH 141
Part III: The Classroom Freestyles
10. Complicating Shawn Carter: Race, the Code, and the Politics of School
DAVID STOVALL 159
11. Oedipus-Not-So-Complex: A Blueprint for Literary Education
A.D. CARSON 172
12. The Culture Industry: Mainstream Success and Black Cultural Representation
GIL COOK 180
13. The Self-Reliant Philosopher King: Shawn Carter Exonerated
SHA’DAWN BATTLE 191
About the Contributors 211
Index 213
Acknowledgments viii
Foreword: On Jay-Z and Hip Hop Studies
CORNEL WEST 1
Introduction: In Search of Meaning: Sign, Symbol, and Shawn
JULIUS BAILEY 3
Part I: The Groundwork
1. Jigga Speaks: The Tradition of Black Oratorical Genius TONI BLACKMAN 25
2. The Authentic Cultural Agent G. JAHWARA GIDDINGS 39
3. The Meeting with a President and a “King” DAVEY D 52
4. A Urban Singer of Tales: The Freestyle Remixing of an Afro-Homeric Oral Tradition
NICOLE HODGES PERSLEY 67
5. The Prodigal God and the Legacy of Socially Responsible Hip Hop
T. HASAN JOHNSON 84
Part II: The Challenges
6. Zen and the Art of Transcending the Status Quo: The Reach from the Hood to the Suburbs
BAKARI KITWANA 99
7. Black Marketing Whiteness: From Hustler to HNIC STEPHANY ROSE 117
8. A Forty Million Slave’s Moment of Clarity DAYLAN DUFELMEIER 132
9. Hip Hop’s Prospects for Womanist Masculinity MELINA ABDULLAH 141
Part III: The Classroom Freestyles
10. Complicating Shawn Carter: Race, the Code, and the Politics of School
DAVID STOVALL 159
11. Oedipus-Not-So-Complex: A Blueprint for Literary Education
A.D. CARSON 172
12. The Culture Industry: Mainstream Success and Black Cultural Representation
GIL COOK 180
13. The Self-Reliant Philosopher King: Shawn Carter Exonerated
SHA’DAWN BATTLE 191
About the Contributors 211
Index 213
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