Overview

Rap's critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the ""hip-hop mayor"" of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. By considering the possibilities inherent in the most prolific and prominent activities of hip-hop politics, Stare in the Darkness reveals, in a clear and practical manner, the political consequences of rap culture for black publics.

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Author:   Lester K. Spence
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9780816669875

ISBN 10:   0816669872
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 June 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Follow Me into a Solo 1. In This Journey You’re the Journalist: Rap Lyrics, Neoliberalism, and the Black Parallel Public 2. A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous: Consuming Rap and Political Attitudes 3. Follow the Leader: Hip-hop Activism and the Circulation of Black Politics 4. Put Here to be Much More than That: The Rise and Fall of Kwame Kilpatrick Conclusion: Obama and the Future of Hip-hop Politics Acknowledgments Appendix A. Political Platforms for the Hip-hop Social Action Network (HSAN) and the Black Panther Party Appendix B. National Hip-hop Convention (NHHPC) Agenda, 2004 Appendix C. Top Hip-hop Albums for the Week of Dec. 1, 2006 Appendix D: Ownership of Top Market Urban/Urban Adult Contemporary Radio Stations Notes Bibliography Discography Index

Reviews

In Stare in the Darkness, Lester K. Spence brings an essential degree of clarity and precision to our understandings of popular culture and political expression. This book is engaging and nuanced, and it will enrich in an original fashion our understanding of hip-hop as well as black politics. -Richard Iton, author of In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era Stare in the Darkness offers brilliant insight into the political realities of contemporary black life. More importantly though, Stare in the Darkness is remixed, chopped and screwed in ways that hip-hop heads will certainly love and more than a few social scientists will find great value in. -Mark Anthony Neal, coeditor of That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader

<p> Stare in the Darkness offers brilliant insight into the political realities of contemporary black life. More importantly though, Stare in the Darkness is remixed, chopped and screwed in ways that hip-hop heads will certainly love and more than a few social scientists will find great value in. --Mark Anthony Neal, coeditor of That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader

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Lester K. Spence is assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

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