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Published
January 2024
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If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you have to understand hip-hop.
James Baldwin, in his famous talk "The Struggle for the Artist's Integrity," suggests that "the poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us." And to understand the truth about the history of Black peoples in America, argues lenny duncan, we must look to the modern Black poet: the hip-hop artist.
In Psalms of My People, artist, scholar, and activist lenny duncan treats the work of hip-hop artists from the last several decades--from N.W.A, Tupac, and Biggie to Lauryn Hill, Jay-Z, and Kendrick Lamar--like sacred scripture. Their songs and lyrics are given full exegetical treatment--a critical and contextual interpretation of text--and are beautifully illustrated, with a blend of ancient and modern art styles illuminating every page.
All the while, duncan traces the history of hip-hop, revealing it as a conduit to tell the modern story of Black liberation in this country, following the bloody trail from the end of the Civil Rights Era through the day George Floyd was sacrificed on the streets of America.
"Who else but the hip-hop artist," asks Duncan, "has embodied the cries, pain, and secret concrete ? Whose art? Our art. Whose story is written in the book of life with crimson lines dipped in a well that is 400+ years deep? Whose story? Our story. For whom does God bring down empires? Us."
Author
lenny duncan duncan
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
1517 Media
Published
January 2024
Weight
318g
Dimensions
134 x 185 x 31 mm
ISBN
9781506479026
ISBN-10
1506479022
Eden Code
6251003
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Author/Creator: lenny duncan duncan
ISBN: 9781506479026
Publisher: 1517 Media
Release Date: January 2024
Weight: 318g
Dimensions: 134 x 185 x 31 mm
Eden Code: 6251003