Chuck D
Forfatter af Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
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Autobiography Of Mistachuck 2 eksemplarer
STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D, Volume 1: There’s a Poison Goin On!: Dystopian Trauma in the Hours… (2023) 1 eksemplar
STEWdio: The Naphic Grovel ARTrilogy of Chuck D, Volume 2: 45 Daze of Read OctoBot: Flies, Dyes, and the Lies of 45 as… (2023) 1 eksemplar
Swing Lowe Sweet Chariote (Extended Cut) 1 eksemplar
The Anthology of Rap 1 eksemplar
CHUCK D signed "Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History" Hardcover Book FIRST EDITION 1 eksemplar
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Mixtape, Inc. 1 eksemplar
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Air America: The Playbook: What a Bunch of Left Wing Media Types have to Say about a World Gone Right (2006) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in L.A. and Beyond (2012) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Two — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
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VOLUME 1 - THERE'S A POISON GOIN ON! | 2020-02 thru 2020-04 // read 2023-08-11
Ruminations on the effects of the organised effort to attract the mental attention of people; not merely their presence at a show and their attention on the spot, but the default attention paid to internet and smart phone. Evidently these diaries started as an effort to track PE's own experience of this global and contemporary phenomenon, but just as evidently more general events overtake this effort. The event of Chuck D's choosing: attempting to launch a new album, and the effort to grab attention for something that not only declines to use the tactics of online hype, but which in large part seems to attack it. How might this effort be successful and still be principled? As he and his colleagues work on this puzzle, the other event occurs and is very much of no-one's choosing: how to gain attention for public health efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. These two events unspool and intertwine, his reflections providing insight on both separately, and end up together providing the central theme of this journal.
Not having followed PE at this time, I wasn't aware until this reading of the project Loud Is Not Enough and single "Food As A Machine Gun" from March 2020 under the name Enemy Radio. Initially the drama playing out publicly, together with the behind-the-scenes preparations, seemed to contradict one another and confused me as to the tensions and internecine strife. A visit to the official web page and some online articles helped clarify, especially the influence of Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast hoax.
VOLUME 2 - 45 DAZE OF RE(A)D OCTOBOT | 2020-09 thru 2020-11 // read 2023-09-03
All lines in 45 DAZE are in rhyming couplets, the focus shifting from the first volume's overview of world events overtaking PE's intention to both launch an album and draw attention to social injustice. Here Chuck D concentrates on Trumpism's maladroit handling of the pandemic itself, though with abiding concern for how that affects (and is affected by) black Americans. "The 45 days up to the election might've paled in the 500 haze of days after the election. The insurrection of January 6, 2021 is there and we are still in a daze about it." The conceit of Cult 45 and 45 stylised as a Nazi swastika seem so obvious here, yet I don't recall anyone else thinking of it before or since.
VOLUME 3 - DATAMBER MINDPAPER: ATTACK ON THE SCREENAGERS | 2021-11 thru 2022-02 // read 2023-09-18
An illustrated poem, serving up a hip-hop montage reminiscent of use of samples in late 80s / early 90s in electronic industrial music -- those samples were thematically related (anti-fascist, anti-institutional religion), effectively creating a perspective or outlook bigger than any single instance. In doing so, they helped motivate listeners to figure out specific references that weren't immediately clear ("what film was this clip of dialogue taken from?" or "what's the context to that music sample?"). Chuck D has done something similar here, but inventing the samples and placing them in a graphical work rather than an audio work.… (mere)