Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
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Book Description
"Lewis has composed an observant and urban B-boy's rites of passage . . . a hiphop bildungsroman told in prose full of buoyancy and bounce."-Greg Tate, author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk
Scars of the Soul is a confessional, stylistic account (in the Joan Didion tradition) of coming-of-age in the Bronx alongside the birth and evolution of hip-hop culture.
Miles Marshall Lewis was born in the Bronx in 1970 and currently lives in Manhattan. He is a former editor of Vibe and XXL, and his work has been published in The Nation, The Source, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Essence and other magazines. He holds a B.A. in sociology from Morehouse College and studied at the Fordham University School of Law.
From the Publisher
SCARS captures the political ambitions of Russell Simmons, the Black Spades gang foundation of Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation, the spiritual sensibility of KRS-One and the Temple of Hip-Hop, and a keynoted debate on the materialistic, violent direction of hiphop culture. Interpreting the mood and inner-city atmosphere that caused the counterculture of hip-hop, Bronx native Miles Marshall Lewis details the circumstances of his father's heroin addiction, his mother's Southern spirituality, his grandfather's career as a Harlem numbers runner, and his own journey from a tenement-building upbringing to worldwide travels -- with hip-hop trailing his steps. An incisive look at contemporary urban American life, Scars exposes the motivations and aspirations of a culture whose spiritual center was the Bronx.
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises,Miles Marshall Lewis,Akashic Books,1888451718,1970-,African American young men,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,Bronx (New York, N.Y.),Composers & Musicians - General,Education,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,General,Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop,Hip hop,Lewis, Miles Marshall,,Multicultural Education,New York,New York (N.Y.),New York (State),United States,Education / Multicultural Education
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