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Time Traveling with Hop Hop
Talent
Perhaps more than any other MC, GZA decapitates the quite choppable theory that Black Studies’ rise out of Black Power amounted to a move from the streets to the accredited university. As Raekwon and Method Man explained on the Wu-Tang Clan’s first album, GZA is the group’s...
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Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of African + African-American Studies and Professor of English at Duke University where he teaches courses in Black Cultural Studies, including signature courses on “Michael Jackson and the Black Performance Tradition” and “The History of Hip-Hop...
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Program Themes
Do androids dream of analog synths? Combining elements of science fiction, astral jazz, historical fiction, psychedelic hip hop, fantasy, and magic realism with non-Occidental cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of the other, but also to revise, interrogate...
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