by kspence | Jan 17, 2012 | Black Politics, Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism |
Late last year Jared Ball, Darius Wilmore, Lawrence Grandpre, Zeke Berzoff, Chris Baron, and I founded the Baltimore Mixtape Project as a vehicle with which we could both help produce and disseminate politically progressive hip-hop. We've gotten a lot of positive...
by kspence | Dec 8, 2011 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Hip-hop, Urban Politics |
One of the questions I never asked in Stare in the Darkness (because it wasn't a "how to" book) was "how might we use rap and hip-hop progressively?" There are literally dozens of efforts across the world to connect rap and hip-hop to...
by kspence | Dec 6, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Hip-hop |
Michael Eric Dyson’s received a great deal of press lately for his course on JayZ. Previously a course on the sociology of hip-hop, Dyson instead sought to teach the course primarily about JayZ. Of course there are a number of folk who are up in arms...
by kspence | Nov 8, 2011 | Sports, The Mass Media |
This morning I received word that Smoking Joe Frazier passed away from liver cancer. I wasn’t really a boxing fan, but while it’s quite possible now to grow up never seeing a boxing match live or on television (my children have never seen a match), it...
by kspence | Oct 25, 2011 | Hip-hop |
Tonight at the Enoch Pratt Library I’ll be giving a talk on the book. And will likely talk a bit about my next non-academic project that answers the question my book doesn’t quite tackle but hints at–how DO we use hip-hop to create a more progressive...
by kspence | Oct 24, 2011 | Hip-hop, Marc Steiner Show
Last week I began a mini-Stare in the Darkness Book Tour of sorts which began with a podcast that should appear sometime this month and continues this Tuesday with my first library book signing at the Enoch Pratt Library. As part of the tour I spoke to Marc Steiner...
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