Comments on: Hip Hop Fact Checking /2006/01/26/hip-hop-fact-checking/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Scott Sommers /2006/01/26/hip-hop-fact-checking/comment-page-1/#comment-3456 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:14:42 +0000 /?p=375#comment-3456 Let me defend the academic integrity of my countrymen and women. This is what happens when academia gets mixed with the popular media. Why on Earth would a university feel compelled to issue a press release concerning linguistics research? It all reminds me of cold fussion.

]]> By: Lelo /2006/01/26/hip-hop-fact-checking/comment-page-1/#comment-3394 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:32:10 +0000 /?p=375#comment-3394 this isn’t daring at all (anymore atleast).

Check out SAT Vocabulary-laced rap music to see how far things have come. It’s called flocabulary.

]]> By: Bill Benzon /2006/01/26/hip-hop-fact-checking/comment-page-1/#comment-3249 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:45:38 +0000 /?p=375#comment-3249 Cheezz . . . what a bunch of maroons, as Bugs Bunny would say.

I don’t know how far back we go, but Houston Baker published Rap and the Academy in 1993 (Chicago).

I discussed hip hop in the last chapter of my book on music (Beethoven’s Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture, Basic 2001) and the reviewer for Nature wasted a part of his review complaining about it. He was a classical fiddle player. The guy didn’t seem to understand that it’s not our (the scholarly community) business to say whether or not it’s music, much less whether or not it’s good music. As the old story has it, of course it’s folk music. Did you ever hear cows play it?

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