Born to Use Mics
Reading Nas's Illmatic
New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2010]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 308 pages ; 21 cm
Academic essays reflect on the 1994 album Illmatic by Nasir "Nas" Jones, covering topics ranging from jazz history to gender.
Contents:
It was signified : "the genesis" / by Adilfu Nama -- A rebel to America : "N.Y. state of mind" after the towers fell / by Sohail Daulatzai -- Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son / by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. -- "It's yours" : hip-hop worldviews in the lyrics of Nas / by James Braxton Peterson -- Critical pedagogy comes at halftime : Nas as black public intellectual / by Marc Lamont Hill -- "Memory lane" : on jazz, hip-hop, and fathers / by Mark Anthony Neal -- "One love," two brothers, thre verses / by Michael Eric Dyson -- "One time 4 your mind" : embedding Nas and hip-hop into a gendered state of mind / by Kyra D. Gaunt -- "Represent," Queensbridge, and the art of living / by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. -- "It ain't hard to tell" : a story of lyrical transcendence / by Imani Perry.
Subjects:
Nas (Musician). Illmatic.
Nas (Musician) -- Criticism and interpretation.
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
Nas (Musician). Illmatic.
Nas (Musician) -- Criticism and interpretation.
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9780465002115
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PERFORMING ARTS Music Popular Bor | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index.