It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop GenerationIn It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. Asante, a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker, and activist who represents this movement, uses hip hop as a springboard for a larger discussion about the urgent social and political issues affecting the post-hip-hop generation, a new wave of youth searching for an understanding of itself outside the self-destructive, corporate hip-hop monopoly. Through insightful anecdotes, scholarship, personal encounters, and conversations with youth across the globe as well as icons such as Chuck D and Maya Angelou, Asante illuminates a shift that can be felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in post-Katrina New Orleans, seen in the rise of youth-led organizations committed to social justice, and heard around the world chanting "It's bigger than hip hop." |
Contents
THE POSTHIPHOP GENERATION | 1 |
TIME LINE 19651991 | 75 |
OLD WHITE MEN or WHO OWNS HIP HOP? | 101 |
FREE EM | 123 |
8 | 151 |
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE NIVERSAL | 171 |
TWO SETS OF NOTES | 179 |
BY ANY MEDIUM NECESSARY BY | 211 |
CONQUERING THE | 223 |
A PHONE INTERVIEW WITH HIP | 261 |
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation M. K. Asante, Jr. Limited preview - 2008 |
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation M. K. Asante, Jr. No preview available - 2009 |
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