The Plot Against Hip Hop: A D Hunter Mystery - Softcover

George, Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617750247 ISBN 13: 9781617750243

Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S., 2011

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Book by George Nelson

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"A welcome nostalgic trip."
--Chicago Tribune

"Nelson George comes from an older generation that still remembers Hip Hop as the vital and dangerous voice it once was. This feeling for the past carries throughout the novel, and manages to convey the weight and importance of this profound shift in values without being nostalgic...The Plot Against Hip Hop is a fine piece of 'edutainment'--both exciting and thought provoking...it's great to finally have a novel about Hip Hop written by one of [its] original documentary journalists."
--ABORT Magazine

"One of our coolest cultural critics has written a mystery page-turner about the underbelly of hip hop, and it's woven with signature whip-smart insights into music. Nelson George's smooth security-guard-turned-detective, a.k.a. D, scours a demimonde as glamorous as Chandler's Los Angeles. This plot has more twists and turns than a pole dancer, and D definitely needs an encore--he's destined to become a classic."
--Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club

"There are few people who can put the past seventy years of urban reality into the perspective of the most recent hip minute like Nelson George. The Plot Against Hip Hop is no exception. Nelson George braids actual facts and fictional characters flawlessly into a time-tunneled walk along various developments in this now-megabusiness called hip hop. For those that say they love hip hop as well as the total legacy it evolved from, it bodes well for them to keep this very close to their head, heart, and attention."
--Chuck D, Public Enemy

"Nelson George is one of my greatest influences as a writer...He inspired me in many ways, and he continues to inspire with The Plot Against Hip Hop."
--Talib Kweli

"The most accomplished black music critic of his generation."
--Washington Post Book World

Praise for Nelson George:

"Perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It's a must read."
--Chris Rock, on City Kid

"Reads like a hip-hop answer to Nick Hornby's High Fidelity."
--New York Times, on One Woman Short

Reseña del editor:

"George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world . . . the book's slim length and flyweight depth could make it an artifact of this particular zeitgeist in American history. Playas and haters and celebrity cameos fuel a novel that is wickedly entertaining while being frozen in time."
--Kirkus Reviews

"This hard-boiled tale is jazzed up with authentic street slang and name-dropping (Biggie, Mary J. Blige, Lil Wayne, and Chuck D) . . . George’s tightly packaged mystery pivots on a believable conspiracy . . . and his street cred shines in his descriptions of Harlem and Brownsville’s mean streets."
--Library Journal

"George is a well-known, respected hip-hop chronicler . . . Now he adds crime fiction to his resume with a carefully plotted crime novel peopled by believable characters and real-life hip-hop personalities."
--Booklist

"The most accomplished black music critic of his generation."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Perhaps one of the greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It's a must-read."
--Chris Rock on City Kid

The Plot Against Hip Hop is a noir novel set in the world of hip hop culture. The stabbing murder of esteemed music critic Dwayne Robinson in a Soho office building is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation. But his old friend, bodyguard and security expert D Hunter, suspects there are larger forces at work.

D Hunter's investigation into his mentor's murder leads into a parallel history of hip hop, a place where renegade government agents, behind-the-scenes power brokers, and paranoid journalists know a truth that only a few hardcore fans suspect. This rewrite of hip hop history mixes real-life figures with characters pulled from the culture's hidden world, including Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Russell Simmons.

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• Verlag: Akashic Books,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1617750247
• ISBN 13: 9781617750243
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176