{"product_id":"9781849350570","title":"I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Jared Ball is determined to rescue hip hop \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e left activism from increasingly subversive corporate control. This book is a manifesto that needs to be read, argued about, and yelled from the rooftops. Let the bricks fly!\"—Todd Steven Burroughs, co-author of \u003ci\u003eCivil Rights Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Funkiest Journalist breaks it all down for all servants of Soul\/Funk music and Art in the 21st Century. His \u003ci\u003eMixtape Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e explains what we are up against battling corporate empires that control the coveted consumer-merchant access points, and offers us an option to distribute, connect, and popularize our culture.\"—Head Roc, political hip-hop artist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The revolutionary power of this book lies in its capacity to interrogate staid constructs of thought and re-pose vital questions pertaining to 'emancipatory journalism.' For the power to pose the question is the greatest power of all.\"—Frank B. Wilderson, III, author of \u003ci\u003eIncognegro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a moment of increasing corporate control in the music industry, Jared A. Ball analyzes the colonization and control of popular music and posits the homemade hip-hop mixtape as an emancipatory tool for community resistance. Equally at home in a post-colonial studies class and on the shelves of an indie record store, \u003ci\u003eI Mix What I Like!\u003c\/i\u003e is a revolutionary investigation of the cultural dimension of anti-racist organizing in African America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJared A. Ball, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e, (a.k.a. The Funkiest Journalist) is the host of \u003ci\u003eFreeMix Radio\u003c\/i\u003e, and assistant professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050747216112,"sku":"9781849350570","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849350570_p0.jpg?v=1763752398","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849350570","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}