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Title Born to use mics : reading Nas's Illmatic / edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai
Published New York : Basic Civitas Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages)
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
Summary Academic essays reflect on the 1994 album Illmatic by Nasir "Nas" Jones, covering topics ranging from jazz history to gender
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nas (Musician). Illmatic.
Nas (Musician) -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Nas (Musician) fast
Illmatic (Nas (Musician)) fast
Subject Rap (Music) -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Rap & Hip Hop.
Rap (Music)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Dyson, Michael Eric.
Daulatzai, Sohail.
ISBN 9780786727650
0786727659
1282460005
9781282460003