All About the Beat
Why Hip-hop Can't Save Black America
New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, [2008]
Format: Book
Description: 186 pages ; 22 cm
"In All About the Beat, John McWhorter celebrates hip-hop for what it is (feel-good, meticulously crafted music), while defining what it is not (useful political advice). It has become an effect of hip-hop for rappers to list in their songs pressing issues in black communities - from welfare to police violence to generalized oppression - but McWhorter argues that pointing to a problem is not the same as solving it. And hip-hop cannot offer meaningful dialogue because, by its very nature, it consists in quick-hitting snips of thought, not treatises on policy planning."--Jacket.
Contents:
Move something -- We keep showin' you: is hip-hop really about politics? -- The words I manifest: is conscious rap different? -- Meet us up on Capitol Hill: could there actually be a hip-hop revolution? -- Ain't long 'fore you get y'all acres: how radical politics holds blacks back -- Moving your body while sitting in your seat: is rhythm truth? -- Be a brilliant soul.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Hip-hop.
Hip-hop -- Political aspects.
Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Rap (Music) -- Political aspects -- United States.
Social change -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Hip-hop.
Hip-hop -- Political aspects.
Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Rap (Music) -- Political aspects -- United States.
Social change -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781592403745
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186).