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Mark Anthony Neal
Features
Culture
[23.Jul.07] :. It is Dyson’s ability to make himself and his work accessible to lay audiences -- ironically much like grassroots activists -- that makes him a target for those folk within the academy and elsewhere, who don’t believe that his work is rigorous enough.
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[2.Jan.07] :. The humanity of the man -- with its funky and messy flaws and frailties -- could never sustain the myth, so much so that the image of the man who gave Black Power its soundtrack became a harsh reminder of its fractured legacy.
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Critical Noire
[1.May.03] :. Price drew on his own training as a Gospel musician and ethnomusicologist to examine Tupac's spiritual development, suggesting that the late artist had surpassed the legacies of John Coltrane and Mahalia Jackson as spiritual figures within the tradition of black music.
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[27.Mar.03] :. I share a space with them each time I'm profiled in grocery stores, or chillin' with my homies Gramsci and Jay Z at Starbucks.
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[26.Feb.03] :. Fela's emergence fits the profile of what has come to be known as the Gramscian or organic intellectual.
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[17.Dec.02] :. In the past, it has been all too easy to identify many of these white artists under the rubric of 'blue-eyed soul'. But I'd like to argue for a separate category known as 'white chocolate' -- that which 'looks' different but contains all the flavor and the texture of the original.
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[30.Oct.02] :. . . . I've come across more than a few hip-hop generation artists and intellectuals who are beginning to show strains of gray in their locks, twists, beards, and fades.
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Reviews
Music
[31.May.05] :. Electric Circus pushed the boundaries of hip-hop -- a psychedelic trip to hip-hop's great beyond -- Be just finds a world-wide Common back home standing on the corner. But you can't go home again and no matter how much he wishes, the Common of Can I Borrow a Dollar? is not the same Common of Be -- and thank God for that.
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[4.Feb.05] :. Legend has fashioned a rather nuanced and sophisticated debut -- a Nora Jones for the R&B faithful.
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[10.Jan.05] :. A bold (and blatantly commercial) attempt to bring purpose to R&B -- and to bring soul music back to the world.
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[11.Nov.04] :. The album is a tribute to Queen Latifah's talents and her musical tastes, and a an example of what the so-called hip-hop generation can produce, when we allow them to grow up.
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[20.Oct.04] :. Audiences can perhaps be forgiven for forgetting about Lalah Hathaway -- her last full length recording was 1994's A Moment -- but her surname demands that we never forget her entirely. As the...
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[18.Oct.02] :. Arguably one of the most important recordings done by a black artists in the post-Civil Rights era, throughout Amazing Grace Franklin seamlessly weaves through traditional sacred recordings.
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