商品簡介
A GUEST IN THE HOUSE OF HIP-HOP: How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be tells the story of author Mickey Hess' path from small-town America to the front of the hip-hop classroom. Born in rural Kentucky, Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Today, he makes a living teaching Hip-Hop and American Culture to the mostly white student body at a private university in New Jersey. Universities offer hundreds of hip-hop courses even as they employ embarrassingly low numbers of black professors. Kanye West has asked white publications to stop writing about hip-hop, and readers are faced with a resurgent white nationalism we hoped we’d conquered. In our fraught moment, A GUEST IN THE HOUSE OF HIP-HOP offers a point of entry for readers committed to racial justice but uncertain about white people’s role in relation to black culture.
作者簡介
Mickey Hess is Professor of English at Rider University and the co-author, with rapper Buddha Monk, of The Dirty Version: On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Dey Street/HarperCollins, 2014). Hess is the author of Is Hip Hop Dead? The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Most Wanted Music (Praeger 2007), and the editor of Greenwood Press’s Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide (2010) and Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Music, Movement, and Culture (2007). His other books include the novel Nostalgia Echo (C&R, 2011) and the memoir Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory (Garrett County, 2008), which was featured as a Chicago Reader “Critic’s Choice.”