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from the issue of February 2, 2006
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Black History Month at UNL
Duke scholar presents 'hip-hop theory' lecture
Duke University scholar Mark Anthony Neal will speak Feb. 7 during UNL's observance of Black History Month.
Neal, associate professor of black popular culture at Duke, will deliver "Towards a Hip-Hop Theory of Black Male Feminism" beginning at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union. The lecture is free and open to the public.
His lecture extends from his doctoral dissertation at the State University of New York at Buffalo, "Discursive Soul: Black Popular Music, Communal Critique, and the Black Public Sphere of the Urban North," and will offer a frank, as well as prescriptive conversation on hip-hop masculinity and images of black women. He will acknowledge hip-hop's dynamism and intergenerational appeal, its dominance in global culture and its history of engaging and shaping political power. But he will also call for accountability in hip-hop imagery and rhetoric and the emergence of what he calls "black male feminists."
Neal is the author of four books, "What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture" (1998), "Soul Babies: Contemporary Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic" (2002), "Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation" (2003), and "New Black Man: Redefining Black Masculinity" (2005); and co-editor of a hip-hop anthology, "That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader" (2004).
Neal earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at SUNY College at Fredonia. He taught at Xavier University in New Orleans, the University of Texas at Austin and SUNY-Albany before going to Duke, where he is director of undergraduate and graduate studies in the African American and African Studies Program/Department.
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