Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N Roll

By: Crazy, Horse Kandia

When Mos Def, platinum-selling New York-based rapper, decided to make a foray into rock 'n roll he called his band "Jack Johnson." The name choice was a telling one: Johnson was the first black world... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396243X
• ISBN13: 9781403962430
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I wish more people would write about black heavy metal

man this book was good I had to get this knowing that I'm a music lover and a fan of black rock funkadelic is my favorite rock band and they taught the whole industry a lesson also talks about jimi hendrix, artur lee, and love, sly stone, plus interviews with lenny kravitz, slash, and vendetta fields a former ikette yes ike turner helped pioneered rock n roll talks about bad brains, and how black people still cannot do the music they helped create which is sad black people just rock harder and better than than people like kid rock, limp bizkit, and beck who are really copying trends set by black artists.black people today need to study their musical roots and embrace our heritege without artists like these there would be no rap today.

About time!

At a time when most books about "rock" leave out black artists(the laughable Spin Guide to Alternative Rock didn't mentionFishbone at all but predictably drooled over much lesser acts)and when dull retreads such as Ryan Adams are hailed as the future of rock,here comes "Rip It Up" to showcase the true future of music. I could have done without the always uselessJon Caramanica's article (I was at the Mos Def show and the reaction wasn't that severe) but hey the rest more than makes up for it.