White Noise: The Eminem Collection

Grammy-winning Eminem (Marshall Mathers) is the first white crossover star of the hip-hop generation and it is a crossover notable for the absence of the resentment (but more of the controversy) that confronted past white performers of "black" music. In fact, black cultural bigwigs from Zadie Smith (who profiled Eminem in a Vibe cover-story lovefest) to rap progenitor and mogul Russell Simmons, not to mention superproducer to the stars Dr. Dre, a host of lesser lights, and hordes of bona fide fans have been crawling out of the woodwork to deflect the very criticism you might expect a white boy to draw when taking up a black form as his own. Meanwhile, self-consciously highbrow journals like the New Republic and the Nation have taken Eminem to task over his confused class antagonism, as portrayed in both his music and his first (it won't be his last) 100 million-grossing feature film, 8 Mile, and his truly scary misogyny and homophobia. This illustrated collection with fifty photographs includes interviews with Eminem along with selections from Toure, Andrew Sarris, Kenneth Turan, Armond White, Richard Kim, Ann Powers, Vic Everett, and many others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156025534X
• ISBN13: 9781560255345
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

timmy review

The book White Noise is very enteresting. I don't read books very much but this one I can say was really good. Hilton Als put a lot of details into the book an made people want to read the book.The things that i like was how they told about his live when he was younger and how he used to get beat up all the time. then there was lyrics from his songs in the book to i relly like to read the lyrics that he had wrote. So if any one ever plans to read a book i recomend this one.

Worthwhile Collection

Hilton Als and Darryl A. Turner over twenty articles on Eminem ranging from praising him to well, not being exactly kind. They range from his rise as a superstar, to race issues, his movie debut, and just about anything else. The articles are very well written, and although minor editing errors exist, transferred very well. Recommended read to get all points of view.