Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/388820to listen full audiobooks. Title: JAY-Z: Made in America Author: Michael Eric Dyson Narrator: Nick Cannon, Michael Eric Dyson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: November 26, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 65 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 12 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author, and includes an introduction written by Pharrell, and read by Nick Cannon. 'Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward.' —Questlove JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove. But as a rapper, he’s sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great an artist he’s been for so long. This audiobook wrestles with the biggest themes of JAY-Z's career, including hustling, and it recognizes the way that he’s always weaved politics into his music, making important statements about race, criminal justice, black wealth and social injustice. As he enters his fifties, and to mark his thirty years as a recording artist, this is the perfect time to take a look at JAY-Z’s career and his role in making this nation what it is today. In many ways, this is JAY-Z’s America as much as it’s Pelosi’s America, or Trump’s America, or Martin Luther King’s America. JAY-Z has given this country a language to think with and words to live by.

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