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Title: The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop by Todd Boyd ISBN: 0-8147-9895-0 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Self-serving drivel
Comment: This book is great for anyone with a thin knowledge of hip-hop culture. Boyd drops a lot of names and poses hard but doesn't leave the thoughtful reader with very much by way of hard analysis. He doesn't even really explain what his thesis is beyond solipsistically refering to a generation's hunger to "get paid." The fact that NYU Press published this book and sanctioned it as "scholarly" work is a sad commentary on how deeply the ethos of entertainment and racial posturing have permeated contemporary American life. Boyd will certainly live to regret the title of this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: The thesis is provocative, but that's it. The work is--with regards to scholarship--deeply impoverished. Venerable writings on Hip Hop remain few--consult Robin Kelly's or Tricia Rose's forays on the subject for more engaged, scholarly readings.
Rating: 1
Summary: wrong and silly
Comment: Obviously Mr. Boyd is looking to fashion himself for the media. And make big bucks in the process. His book is full of factual errors (for example, he IGNORES the role of the black church in providing strength and inspiration and power to Black Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, especially) ANd he makes a fatal error of mistaking current pop fashion with political goals. The goals and aspirations articulated by the civil rights movement are surely not "dead" as Boyd contends (based on WHAT evidence? -- the stardom and appeal of some hip-hop artists?)but alive and well in the hearts and minds of many Americans. I've worked and lived (by choice) in ghetto neighborhoods for years and the aspirations, hopes and dreams expressed by people who live there -- including those young people who love hip hop, who identify with hip hop artists and who dress the part, actually have very traditional -- one might say, mainstream -- hopes for themselves AND their communities. The absence of social responsibility -- which Boyd seems to view as an excellent development -- is probably not even true (he offers no evidence for it at all) To the extent that it is true -- it's probably an outgrowth of years of discrimination, disenfranchisement and, too, social and racial and economic isolation. Thus, an indictment of capitalism, it seems to me. If you listen to many hip hop artists (I'm not sure Boyd has done this) you hear in their words a sort of original allegiance for civil rights aspirations. Who on earth gave this man a PhD and tenure???? It will seem politically incorrect to criticize this work -- but it is a superficial, lightweight treatment that actually ends up disrespecting its weighty, important subject. -- Disgusted in NYC.
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Title: Am I Black Enough for You: Popular Culture from the 'Hood and Beyond by Todd Boyd ISBN: 0253211050 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Young Black Rich and Famous : The Rise of the NBA, The Hip Hop Invasion and the Transformation of AmericanCulture by Todd Boyd ISBN: 0767912772 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture by Bakari Kitwana ISBN: 0465029795 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture (Critical Perspectives on the Past) by William Eric Perkins ISBN: 1566393620 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hip Hop America by Nelson George ISBN: 0140280227 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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