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Podcast: New Books in African American Studies
Episode: Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Description: Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison records and performs under the moniker âMad Squirrelâ and has co-founded two groupsâthe San-Francisco-based Forest Fires Collective and Washington DCâs The Acornsâas well as releasing various solo projects.Harrison is the author of Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification (Temple UP, 2009).Song credits from this episode:
Murs/ F'Real/ Say Anything/ 1997
Zagu Brown/Dont Believe It/ Projects/1996
Top Ramen/ Hardly Celebrity: Pimp Shit/Freestyle/2000
FundaMentals/The Pattern Fall Wars/Falling...