Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

249 Pages·2004·0.89 MB·English

by  Imani Perry

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Hip Hop
. . . . . Prophets of the Hood
Imani
Perry
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DukeUniversityPress Durham&London 2004

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Acknowledgments ix
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MyMicSoundNice:
Art,Community,andConsciousness 38
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Contents
StingingLikeTabasco:StructureandFormat
inHipHopCompositions 58
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TheGloriousOutlaw:
HipHopNarratives,AmericanLaw,and
theCourtofPublicOpinion 102
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B-Boys,Players,andPreachers:
ReadingMasculinity 117
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TheVenusHipHopandthePinkGhetto:
NegotiatingSpacesforWomen 155
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BlingBling...andGoingPop:
ConsumerismandCo-optationinHipHop 191
Notes 205
Index 223

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Acknowledgments
This project was nurtured, supported, and fueled by many people.
Abundant thanks to J. Reynolds Smith, my editor, and Sharon Parks
TorianofDukeUniversityPressforcommitment,encouragement,and
carefulreadingovertheyearsinwhichthisprojectdeveloped.
Thank you to the institutions, foundations, and programs that have
supported this work: The Minority Summer Research Exchange Pro-
gram at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Ford Founda-
tion, the Mellon Foundation, the American Studies Association, Har-
vardUniversity’sBlackGraduateNetwork.
Thankyoutothementors,teachers,motivators,andopportunitycre-
ators:RobertBellinger,HazelCarby,Fr.ThomasClark,MichaelDen-
ning,Gail Dines, Michael Eric Dyson, Janet Eisendrath, Ann Fabian,
HenryLouisGatesJr.,HermanGray,FarahJasmineGriffin,bellhooks,
CesarMcDowell,PhillipMcFarland,ReneéNeblett,JohnSzwed,Cornel
West,andThomasWilcox.
ThankyoutothosewithwhomIhavebrokenbreadoverhiphopanaly-
sisandthevagariesofpopularcultureatvariouspointsoverthelastthir-
teenyears,colleagues,students,acquaintances,friends,andlovedones:
Michele Alexandre, Anthony Almeida, Terence Barrett, Alvin Bragg,

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