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Author:   Josephine Metcalf ,  Will Turner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9781472434319

ISBN 10:   1472434315
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   06 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction “It’s got to feel real but not be real” (Ice-T), Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner; Part 1 Hip-Hop Contexts; Chapter 1 Ice/Age: Experience, Achievement, and Transformations of an OG, Murray Forman; Chapter 2 Ice-T at the Movies: The Hip-Hop Film Cycle and the On-Screen Gangsta in Flux, Keith Corson; Chapter 3 Voices of the Gods: Definition, Diegesis, and Discourse in Ice-T’s The Art of Rap, James Braxton Peterson; Part 2 Genre Hustling; Chapter 4 Crossing Police Lines: Body Count and the Politics of Intercultural Miscommunication, Will Turner; Chapter 5 Member of an Elite Squad: Ice-T and the Imagining of “Fin” Tutuola, Mark D. Cunningham; Chapter 6 Ice Loves Coco: Reality TV, Hip-Hop, and the Articulation of Neo-Liberal Family Values, Barry Shanahan; Chapter 7 Writing “on the Rilla” with Ice-T: from Autobiography to Avatar in Kings of Vice, Jonathan Munby; Part 3 Activist, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur; Chapter 8 Gaming the System: Ice-T as Neoliberal Hustler and Entrepreneurial Philanthropist, Greg Dimitriadis, Justin De Senso; Chapter 9 The Peacemaking Producer of LA: Negotiating and Representing Gangs on Reality TV, Josephine Metcalf; Chapter 10 Ice-T’s Sense of Redemption and the Gangbanger Autobiography, H. David Brumble; Chapter 11 Getting “A Message Through to the Red, White, and Blue”: Ice-T in the Age of Obama, Halifu Osumare; Part 4 Interview; Chapter 12 Living by Your Word: An Interview with Ice-T; afterword Afterword Ice-T’s “-ish” and The Power of Street Knowledge, Travis L. Gosa;

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'Metcalf and Turner have assembled an impressive collection of essays regarding one of hip-hop's most controversial and important figures. Covering a vast range of cultural fields, from reality television to film, crime drama acting to politics, video games to entrepreneurship, ageing and masculinity, the book embraces the Renaissance Man spirit that makes Ice-T, and hip-hop culture, so complex and valuable.'Justin Williams, University of Bristol, UK'These wide-ranging and analytically sharp essays speak to the maturity of hip-hop studies as a field and bring home the reach of contemporary hip-hop culture through the career of one iconic individual. Ice-T's success captures the immense creative and commercial versatility of hip-hop culture, and crystallizes trends in the conglomerated cultural industries - the power of rap celebrities to build and sustain their careers in a corporate-dominated media environment.'Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester, UK

'Metcalf and Turner have assembled an impressive collection of essays regarding one of hip-hop's most controversial and important figures. Covering a vast range of cultural fields, from reality television to film, crime drama acting to politics, video games to entrepreneurship, ageing and masculinity, the book embraces the ""Renaissance Man"" spirit that makes Ice-T, and hip-hop culture, so complex and valuable.' Justin Williams, University of Bristol, UK 'These wide-ranging and analytically sharp essays speak to the maturity of hip-hop studies as a field and bring home the reach of contemporary hip-hop culture through the career of one iconic individual. Ice-T's success captures the immense creative and commercial versatility of hip-hop culture, and crystallizes trends in the conglomerated cultural industries - the power of rap celebrities to build and sustain their careers in a corporate-dominated media environment.' Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester, UK

"'Metcalf and Turner have assembled an impressive collection of essays regarding one of hip-hop's most controversial and important figures. Covering a vast range of cultural fields, from reality television to film, crime drama acting to politics, video games to entrepreneurship, ageing and masculinity, the book embraces the ""Renaissance Man"" spirit that makes Ice-T, and hip-hop culture, so complex and valuable.' Justin Williams, University of Bristol, UK 'These wide-ranging and analytically sharp essays speak to the maturity of hip-hop studies as a field and bring home the reach of contemporary hip-hop culture through the career of one iconic individual. Ice-T's success captures the immense creative and commercial versatility of hip-hop culture, and crystallizes trends in the conglomerated cultural industries - the power of rap celebrities to build and sustain their careers in a corporate-dominated media environment.' Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester, UK"

Author Information

Josephine Metcalf is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. Will Turner is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Manchester, UK.

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