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    JAY-Z: Made in America
    JAY-Z: Made in America
    JAY-Z: Made in America
    Audiobook5 hours

    JAY-Z: Made in America

    Written by Michael Eric Dyson and Pharrell

    Narrated by Michael Eric Dyson and Nick Cannon

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    About this audiobook

    This program is read by the author, and includes an introduction written by Pharrell, and read by Nick Cannon.

    "Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." —Questlove

    JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove. But as a rapper, he’s sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great an artist he’s been for so long.

    This audiobook wrestles with the biggest themes of JAY-Z's career, including hustling, and it recognizes the way that he’s always weaved politics into his music, making important statements about race, criminal justice, black wealth and social injustice. As he enters his fifties, and to mark his thirty years as a recording artist, this is the perfect time to take a look at JAY-Z’s career and his role in making this nation what it is today. In many ways, this is JAY-Z’s America as much as it’s Pelosi’s America, or Trump’s America, or Martin Luther King’s America. JAY-Z has given this country a language to think with and words to live by.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateNov 26, 2019
    ISBN9781250750211
    JAY-Z: Made in America
    Author

    Michael Eric Dyson

    MICHAEL ERIC DYSON—Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and of Ethics and Society, Divinity School, and NEH Centennial Chair at Vanderbilt University—is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including Tears We Cannot Stop, What Truth Sounds Like, JAY-Z, and Long Time Coming. A winner of the 2018 nonfiction Southern Book Prize, Dr. Dyson is also a recipient of two NAACP Image awards and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former president Barack Obama has noted: “Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”

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    • 5/5
      A classic description of a pure genius. One worth celebrating. A true wordsmith.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic, amazing. A great book about a great man. Very eye opening.
    • 3/5
      It was an ok book. I think it was more of a overhyped way of writing about himself. There was some great content in here, a large part of the book seemed like a lot of fluff information or questionable facts though.
    • 4/5
      I expected more but I liked the book. Michael Eric Dyson is the narrator not Nick Canon
    • 5/5
      His balanced view is so refreshing. I recommend all people to read this. Even people of different views and political stripes cannot miss the extreme value in this breakdown of someone who is America.
    • 5/5
      Eric Dyson is such a great poet, artist, philanthropist, and even a rapper! I love how he incorporates the struggle of black America and ties in all in to explain how a Jay-Z can arise!
    • 5/5
      Very insightful. Jay is one of my favorites and for this book to break down his work and life story ?
    • 5/5
      Good interested book to read and enjoy la la la