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Title: Everything But the Burden : What White People Are Taking from Black Culture by Greg Tate ISBN: 0-7679-1497-X Publisher: Harlem Moon Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: BEFORE THERE WAS ANYTHING THERE WAS ELVIS?
Comment: Remember the add for Elvis Presleys number 1s CD...................
BEFORE THERE WAS ANYTHING THERE WAS ELVIS?
Forget Ike Turner, forget Little Richard, forget Fats Domino.....Before there was Bobby Seal and Huey P. Newton and Malcom X there was Apple Computers PANTHER X software? Let's not start with Eminem or
Kenny G or Chuck Mangioni. Before there was Picasso there was no cubism? There are many issues brought up in Greg Tates "Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture" but 95 percent of the people don't want to see this...maybe the 5 percent always will. So much can be diss-missed or over looked when looking at appropriation from the appropriators perspective. It isn't about freedom that is in question here but privilege and power.....something easily misunderstood.....
Rating: 1
Summary: the question should be..........
Comment: Why such a book needs to be written in the first place? What is it's social redeeming feature and how does it benefit the racial problems we have in this country? Of course the Roots of this book go much deeper, it's the USA version of the "Out of Africa "books. Those books insist that the Greeks, and others, stole the art, religion, philosophy, science and literature from Africa, apperently the Greeks were unable to come up with anything new without consulting with Africans first(of course we never find out which Africans). Now we are told that White Americans are ripping of Black Culture, that we want everything that is black; and that, Heaven forbid) that white Churches have even stolen Gospel songs. What this book reflects is cultural arrogance and gross ignorance. If anything, the Hip Hop, gang signs, sexualizing of black men or women and the worshipping of athletes show a distinct lack of culture. Of course the trend is to blame Whitey for both pushing and stealing from this culture; therefore absolving Black Americans from any responsibility for social degeneration. It might be more historically correct that Afro-Americans have been using and misusing European culture for the past 400 yrs. Besides, where and from whom, did the slaves learn the religion, songs and music to develop the Gospel Songs; I doubt that they brought them over from Africa.
Rating: 1
Summary: Burden Fails to Deliver
Comment: "Everything But the Burden" is a book that promises much and delivers little. Subtitled "What White People Are Taking From Black Culture" the book holds forth the promise of exploring how Black culture has influenced white society. Unfortunately, the promise is broken.
Asides from the first chapter, Eminem: The New White Negro, "Everything But The Burden" fails to deliveranything of substance. The book which is a collection of essays by more than 15 writers is an esoteric mixture of the scholarly and the street and that is its downfall. The book misses its mark by trying to mix Hip-Hop cool with Ivory tower scholarship, an idea which is certainly ambitious, but not impossible.
Unfortunately, there are not enough writing chops here to pull it off and the reader is left to stumble through 257 pages waiting for the revelation of the book's title.
There is nothing new here, even though the introduction and first chapter are interesting, the remainder of the book is a collection of disjointed essays, poetry and fatal collisions of Hip-Hop advocacy and attempts to be glib, but as far as "What White People Are Taking From Black Culture" the search is too long and too difficult for the few gems to be found.
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Title: The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture by Bakari Kitwana ISBN: 0465029795 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Who's Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America by Kevin Powell ISBN: 0609810448 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (Music/Culture) by Murray Forman ISBN: 0819563978 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Young Black Rich and Famous : The Rise of the NBA, The Hip Hop Invasion and the Transformation of AmericanCulture by Todd Boyd ISBN: 0767912772 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Hip Hop America by Nelson George ISBN: 0140280227 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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