by kspence | Jun 18, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Education, Hip-hop, Pop Culture |
A couple of weeks ago we held the finals of The Baltimore Mixtape Project. It was the kickoff event of Mobilizing and Organizing from Below. The event was far better than I could've possibly imagined, particularly given its shoestring nature. Most importantly it...
by kspence | May 26, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Hip-hop
Late last year, a group of people came together to promote locally produced politically progressive hip-hop by means of a contest. We would give cash prizes to the best hip-hop and spoken word artist that deals with the school to prison pipeline, an issue that's...
by kspence | May 8, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture
I knew I'd name the title of my book Stare in the Darkness as soon as I knew my book would be about rap, hip-hop, and black politics. Thought it was a dope title. But I wanted to pay homage to Rakim. Even though he wasn't as prolific as Run DMC, as the Beastie...
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 | 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...
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