The Hip Hop & Obama Reader

Author:   Travis L. Gosa (Assistant Professor of Social Science, Assistant Professor of Social Science, Cornell University) ,  Erik Nielson (Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, University of Richmond) ,  Assistant Professor of Social Science Travis L Gosa (Cornell University) ,  Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts Erik Nielson (University of Richmond)
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9780199341818


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   12 November 2015
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Author:   Travis L. Gosa (Assistant Professor of Social Science, Assistant Professor of Social Science, Cornell University) ,  Erik Nielson (Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, University of Richmond) ,  Assistant Professor of Social Science Travis L Gosa (Cornell University) ,  Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts Erik Nielson (University of Richmond)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780199341818


ISBN 10:   0199341818
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   12 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Preface About the Contributors Foreword Tricia Rose, Brown University Introduction: The State of Hip Hop in the Age of Obama Erik Nielson, University of Richmond Travis L. Gosa, Cornell University PART I: MOVE THE CROWD: HIP HOP POLITICS IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD 1. Message from the Grassroots: Hip Hop Activism, Millennials, and the Race for the White House Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut 2. It's Bigger Than Barack: Hip Hop Political Organizing, 2004-2013 Elizabeth Méndez Berry, New York University Bakari Kitwana, Author and CEO, Rap Sessions 3. ""There Are No Saviors"": Hip Hop and Community Activism in the Obama Era Kevin Powell, Author and Activist 4. ""Obama Nation"": Hip Hop and Global Protest Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York 5. ""Record! I am Arab"": Paranoid Arab Boys, Global Cyphers, and Hip Hop Nationalism Torie Rose DeGhett, Columbia University PART II: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN? THE CONTESTED DISCOURSE OF OBAMA & HIP HOP 6. Obama, Hip Hop, African American History, and ""Historical Revivalism"" Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University 7. ""Change That Wouldn't Fill a Homeless Man's Cup Up"": Filipino-American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama Anthony Kwame Harrison, Virginia Tech 8. Obama/Time: The President in the Hip-Hop Nation Murray Forman, Northeastern University 9. One Day It Will All Make Sense: Obama, Politics and Common Sense Charlie Braxton, Author and Activist 10. ""New Slaves"": The Soul of Hip-Hop Sold to Da Massah in the Age of Obama Raphael Heaggans, Niagara University PART III: REPRESENT: GENDER AND LANGUAGE IN THE OBAMA ERA 11. YouTube and Bad Bitches: Hip Hop's Seduction Of Girls and The Distortion Of Participatory Culture Kyra D. Gaunt, City University of New York 12. A Performative Account of Black Girlhood Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 13. The King's English: Obama, Jay Z, and the Science of Code Switching Michael P. Jeffries, Wellesley College 14. My President is Black: Speech Act Theory and Presidential Allusions in the Lyrics of Rap Music James Peterson and Cynthia Estremera, Lehigh University Afterword: When Will Black Lives Matter? Neoliberalism, Democracy, and the Queering of American Activism in the Post-Obama Era Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago Subject Index"

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A comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the relationship between hip-hop and politics in the era of Obama. --<em>The Philadelphia Tribune</em> The book as a whole interweaves the good, the bad, and the ugly of the president's relationship with hip-hop and the pressing issues within communities using hip-hop as a political and social outlet. The essays are well written, and the eclectic topics...underscore the diversity of hip-hop. -<em>Choice</em> <em>The Hip Hop & Obama Reader</em> is a superb introduction to the complicated and contested relationship between our nation's first black president and the hip hop culture that played a key role in his election. This book admirably pushes past saccharine hagiography of an iconic black figure to probe the complex political, cultural, racial and gendered dimensions of hip hop in the Age of Obama. Gosa and Nielson have assembled a brilliant and wide ranging collection of essays that bring clarity and insight to hip hop's status during a pioneering presidency. --Michael Eric Dyson <em>The Hip Hop & Obama Reader</em> is an unparagoned mixtape (in written form) of brilliance by an all-star cast of Hip Hop thought leaders, activists and scholars. Beyond a thought-provokingly balanced interrogation of national and international politics, policy and protest, this is the most honest, comprehensive and intellectually-stimulating critical engagement of Hip Hop during the Age of Obama...ever. --Emmett G. Price III, editor of <em>The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational Divide</em>


A comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the relationship between hip-hop and politics in the era of Obama. --The Philadelphia Tribune


Author Information

Travis L. Gosa is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. He holds faculty appointments in Education and American Studies, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality. Since 2008, he has served on the advisory board of Cornell's Hip Hop Collection, the largest archive on early hip hop culture in the United States. He teaches courses on hip hop culture, educational inequality, and African American families. His most recent work has been published with peer-reviewed journals Poetics, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Teacher's College Record, Popular Music and Society, and the Journal of American Culture. He also writes regularly for popular outlets, including The Root, FoxNews, Ebony, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Erik Nielson is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on African American literature, hip hop culture, and advanced writing. He received his M.A. in English from University College London and his Ph.D., also in English, from the University of Sheffield. He has lectured on African American literature and hip hop culture at major conferences in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, and he has published articles in several peer reviewed journals, including African American Review, MELUS, Race and Justice, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Journal of Popular Music Studies. He also writes regularly for popular outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and NPR and has been interviewed by a wide range of national media organizations. He is currently at work on his manuscript, Under Surveillance: Policing the Resistance in Hip Hop, for Manchester University Press.

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