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This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience.Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other.Ice-T's iconic and multifarious career maps these shifts. This is the first book that, taken as a whole, looks at a black cultural icon's manipulation of (or manipulation by?) so many different forms simultaneously. The result is a fascinating series of tensions arising from Ice-T's ability to inhabit conflicting pop-cultural roles including: 'hardcore' gangsta rapper and dedicated philanthropist; author of controversial song Cop Killer and network television cop; self-proclaimed 'pimp' and reality television house husband. As the essays in this collection detail, Ice-T's chameleonic public image consistently tests the accepted parameters of black cultural production, and in doing so illuminates the contradictions of a society erroneously dubbed 'post-racial'.

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• Full title: Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player
• Subtitle: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production
• Author: Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9781472434319
• ISBN: 1472434315
• ID: 04805120
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 678 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 235 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. June 2014

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