Alfons
Way of the future
http://www.mp3.com/news/stories/9464.html
It's a bit long but he starts talking about hip hop scholars and academics about halfway through. He mentions Jeff Chang specifically (Jeff has replied here http://www.cantstopwontstop.com/blog/2007/05/krs-one-on-cant-stop-wont-stop.cfm).
I think KRS has a point, too much of the stuff I've read about hip hop starts off with the big three (herc, bam and flash) and nyc stories about the the block parties, the gangs etc... Which is the history of hip hop in a sense, but KRS' point seems to be that there are many other stories to be told. Personally I thought Can't Stop, Won't Stop was excactly the kind of book KRS One seems to be looking for, i.e. it addressed the whole culture and many of it's connections, and as Jeff Chang says in his post CSWS is just one view of many.
Whats KRS's "academic" output been like? Who are the other "hip hop" scholars? Are cultural hip hop studies really getting big in the US? (when academics touch on pop culture here it's almost always to make accademia seem hip and in the know while it really is neither and it definitely isn't taken very seriously in universities here). I seem to remember Ripley blogging about this kind of stuff?
It's a bit long but he starts talking about hip hop scholars and academics about halfway through. He mentions Jeff Chang specifically (Jeff has replied here http://www.cantstopwontstop.com/blog/2007/05/krs-one-on-cant-stop-wont-stop.cfm).
I think KRS has a point, too much of the stuff I've read about hip hop starts off with the big three (herc, bam and flash) and nyc stories about the the block parties, the gangs etc... Which is the history of hip hop in a sense, but KRS' point seems to be that there are many other stories to be told. Personally I thought Can't Stop, Won't Stop was excactly the kind of book KRS One seems to be looking for, i.e. it addressed the whole culture and many of it's connections, and as Jeff Chang says in his post CSWS is just one view of many.
Whats KRS's "academic" output been like? Who are the other "hip hop" scholars? Are cultural hip hop studies really getting big in the US? (when academics touch on pop culture here it's almost always to make accademia seem hip and in the know while it really is neither and it definitely isn't taken very seriously in universities here). I seem to remember Ripley blogging about this kind of stuff?