Academics Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay use their combined knowledge to dig deeper and ask more ambitious questions than most pop culture podcasts out there – not doing recaps or just remaining on the level of entertainment coverage. For them, popular culture offers resources for asking questions about who we are and where we are going, questions that can be political, legal, technological, economic, or social, but often cut across all of the above.
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episode 112: Hip-Hop and the Academy, with Taj Frazier
Robeson Taj Frazier is an associate professor of communication and director of IDEA (the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg), as well as the author of The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination and KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell, and producer of IT'S YOURS: A Story About Hip-Hop and the Internet and Hip-Hop and the Metaverse on PBS. Reflecting on his roots and early influences, he takes us through his journey from New Jersey to China to academia, having produced both books and multimedia along the way.
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Robeson Taj Frazier
IDEA: Institute for Diversity & Empowerment @ Annenberg
Books:
The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell
Film/TV:
IT'S YOURS documentary
Hip-Hop and the Metaverse | PBS
Early influences:
Mr T. as B.A. Baracus on the A-Team
GI Joe
Jem
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson with Charles S. Dutton
Watermelon Man
American Culture in China (1990s):
Mariah Carey / Yanni
W.E.B. DuBois
Paul Robeson
Discman
Darlie toothpaste
Marguerite de Bourgoing
The Misadventures of AWKWARD Black Girl (Issa Rae)
Tricia Rose
Lupe Fiasco
Roblox
Ben Caldwell / KAOS Network:
Project Blowed, a workshop space utilized by:
The Pharcyde, Freestyle Fellowship, Doja Cat, Kendrick Lamar
Leimert Phone Company project
MIT Radiation Laboratory history / video
Welcome to Meta
Second Life
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Music:
“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.
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In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet
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Spaceship by Lesion X
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