She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
By Joan Morgan
4/5
()
About this ebook
Released in 1998, Lauryn Hill’s first solo album is often cited by music critics as one of the most important recordings in modern history. From being chosen by the Library of Congress for the National Recording Registry to being declared the second greatest album by a woman by NPR to influencing subsequent generations of artists such as Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, and Janelle Monáe, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has remained a cultural landmark.
Award-winning feminist author and journalist Joan Morgan delivers an expansive, in-depth, and heartfelt exploration of the seminal album, its enduring place in pop culture, and the pioneering woman behind it. Featuring exclusive interviews and in-depth research, She Begat This is both an indelible portrait of a magical moment when a young, fierce, and determined singer-rapper-songwriter made music history and a crucial work of scholarship, perfect for longtime hip-hop fans and a new generation just discovering this album.
Joan Morgan
A pioneering hip-hop journalist and award-winning feminist author, Joan Morgan coined the term “hip-hop feminism” in 1999 with the publication of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, which is now studied at colleges across the country. She is currently the program director of the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU.
Read more from Joan Morgan
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Payton Saves Ocean Rainbow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to She Begat This
Related ebooks
Tales of the Out & the Gone: Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnd It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Afeni Shakur: Evolution Of A Revolutionary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Crunk Feminist Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Black Woman: An Anthology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Am Who I Am, A Black Girl and I Rock Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHome: Social Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Acolytes: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Artists and Musicians For You
Summary of The War of Art: by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elvis and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Woman in Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me: Elton John Official Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Violinist of Auschwitz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowie: An Illustrated Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leonardo da Vinci Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Meaning of Mariah Carey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rememberings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not My Father's Son: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Great Love Letters You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gary Larson and The Far Side Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More Myself: A Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slash Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between The World And Me Summary Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Born to Run Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for She Begat This
6 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
She Begat This - Joan Morgan
1 / Everything Is Everything
L-Boogie’s Superstar
rises from behind the bar of Chez Lucienne and cuts across the din of the Lenox Avenue restaurant. It’s a Tuesday night, which means the strip is poppin’ and the spot is predictably filled with thirty- to seventysomethings, all sporting the particular mix of blackness so signature to Harlem. A quick scan reveals well-heeled professionals and government workers, sartorially inclined artists and wizened old hustlers, wide-eyed recent transplants and a seasoned old guard. The accents that pepper their revelry expose antecedents that span the global South. Mississippi to Mali. Accra to the Antilles. Brixton to Bed-Stuy. Still Harlem, despite the increasing number of white faces or the proliferation of new eateries boasting fussy fusion menus and downtown priced cocktails. In deference to this fact, the bartender assists the evening’s transition from the cocktail to dinner hours with a predictable mix of ’70s cookout classics, ’80s R&B, and an amalgam of ’90s soul and temperate hip hop. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the apparent fave; all sixteen tracks woven diligently throughout. This is a realization I greet with an audible