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Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story

Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story

Neff, Ali Colleen
Ferris, William R.

Paperback

Series: American Made Music

General Political ScienceRegional: SouthWorld Music

ISBN10: 161703052X
ISBN13: 9781617030529
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Mar 4 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A study of grass roots musical creation happening in the cradle of the blues In the Mississippi Delta, creativity, community, and a rich expressive culture persist despite widespread poverty. Over five years of extensive work in the region, author Ali Colleen Neff collected a wealth of materials that demonstrate a vibrant musical scene. Let the World Listen Right draws from classic studies of the blues as well as extensive ethnographic work to document the changing same of Delta music making. From the neighborhood juke joints of the contemporary Delta to the international hip-hop stage, this study traces the musical networks that join the region's African American communities to both traditional forms and new global styles. The book features the words and describes performances of contemporary artists, including blues musicians, gospel singers, radio and club DJs, barroom toast-tellers, preachers, poets, and a spectrum of Delta hip-hop artists. Contemporary Delta hip-hop artists Jerome TopNotch the Villain Williams, Kimyata Yata Dear, and DA F.A.M. have contributed freestyle poetry, extensive interview materials, and their own commentaries. The book focuses particularly on the biography of TopNotch, whose hip-hop poetics emerge from a lifetime of schoolyard dozens and training in the gospel church. Formerly a music writer for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the SF Weekly, and the East Bay Express, among others, Ali Colleen Neff is currently an instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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