Description
Book SynopsisCritiquing the true impact of hip-hop culture on politics.
Trade Review"In Stare in the Darkness, Lester K. Spence brings an essential degree of clarity and precision to our understandings of popular culture and political expression. This book is engaging and nuanced, and it will enrich in an original fashion our understanding of hip-hop as well as black politics." —Richard Iton, author of In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
"Stare in the Darkness offers brilliant insight into the political realities of contemporary black life. More importantly though, Stare in the Darkness is remixed, chopped and screwed in ways that hip-hop heads will certainly love and more than a few social scientists will find great value in." —Mark Anthony Neal, coeditor of That’s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Follow Me into a Solo
1. In This Journey You’re the Journalist: Rap Lyrics, Neoliberalism, and the Black Parallel Public
2. A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous: Consuming Rap and Political Attitudes
3. Follow the Leader: Hip-hop Activism and the Circulation of Black Politics
4. Put Here to be Much More than That: The Rise and Fall of Kwame Kilpatrick
Conclusion: Obama and the Future of Hip-hop Politics
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Political Platforms for the Hip-hop Social Action Network (HSAN) and the Black Panther Party
Appendix B. National Hip-hop Convention (NHHPC) Agenda, 2004
Appendix C. Top Hip-hop Albums for the Week of Dec. 1, 2006
Appendix D: Ownership of Top Market Urban/Urban Adult Contemporary Radio Stations
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
Index
