Title: It's bigger than hip-hop
Description: It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. M.K. Asante, Jr., a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker, and activist who represents this new movement, uses hip hop as a springboard for a larger discussion about the urgent social and political issues affecting the post-hip-hop generation, a new wave of youth searching for an understanding of itself outside the self-destructive, corporate hip-hop monopoly. Through insightful anecdotes, scholarship, personal encounters, and conversations with youth across the globe as well as icons such as Chuck D and Maya Angelou, Asante illuminates a shift that can be felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in post-Katrina New Orleans, seen in the rise of youth-led organizations committed to social justice, and heard around the world chanting "It's bigger than hip hop."
Subjects: Rap (Music), History and criticism, Race identity, Intellectual life, African Americans in popular culture, Attitudes, Social conditions, Music, Social aspects of Music, African Americans, African American youth, Hip-hop, Popular culture, Social aspects, Musikleben, Rap, African americans, social conditions, African americans, intellectual life, Music, history and criticism, Music, social aspects, Popular culture, united states
Places: Popular culture, United States