"Fear of a Black Planet": Rap Music and Black Cultural Politics in the 1990s.

Rose, Tricia

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ERIC Number: EJ435216

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Publication Date: 1991

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"Fear of a Black Planet": Rap Music and Black Cultural Politics in the 1990s.

Rose, Tricia

Journal of Negro Education, v60 n3 p276-90 Sum 1991

Explores the exercise of institutional and ideological power over rap music and fans, how artists and fans respond to that context, and the complex relationships between rap's political economy and the sociologically based crime discourse that frames it. Rap's poetic voice is a political expression of the Black experience. (JB)

Descriptors: Activism, Black Culture, Black Influences, Black Youth, Crime, Music, Persuasive Discourse, Political Issues, Political Socialization, Popular Culture, Self Expression, Social Problems, Urban Culture, Urban Problems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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