Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises

by Miles Marshall Lewis and Saul Williams

Book Overview

Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises is a confessional, stylistic account (in the Joan Didion tradition) of coming of age in the Bronx alongside the birth and evolution of hip-hop culture. This essay collection presents a journalistic mosaic of seminal figures in hip-hop, documentary essays exploring the social decay of hip-hop, and a substantial element of memoir, as well as observations on the generational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888451718
• ISBN13: 9781888451719
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 6.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"