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http://www.reporter-times.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=85869&format=html
Rob Burgess
Hip-Hop, you're the love of my life
By Rob Burgess | rburgess@reportert.com
Thursday May 24, 2007
I admit it. I'm that guy - I'm that clean-cut white kid who loves Hip-Hop.
In fact, I am so fond of the genre, as fellow reporter Josh Kastrinsky has
told me, if the Reporter-Times were in need of a resident Hip-Hop
Correspondent I would be a lock for the position.
[ ... ]
When describing Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel "Lolita" on
Salon.com, Mary Elizabeth Williams writes that "what makes 'Lolita' a work
of greatness isn't that its title has become ingrained in the vernacular,
isn't that was a generation ahead of America in fetishizing young girls. No,
it is the writing, the way Nabokov bounces around in words like the English
language is a toy trunk, the sly wit, the way it's devastating and cynical
and heartbreaking all at once."
Like Nabokov, the most gifted hip-hop artists put you in their shoes, even
if you wouldn't want to know them in real life. That's something only the
best story-tellers can do.
Burgess is the education reporter for the Reporter-Times. He can be reached
by e-mail at rburgess@reportert.com.
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http://www.reporter-times.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=85869&format=html
Rob Burgess
Hip-Hop, you're the love of my life
By Rob Burgess | rburgess@reportert.com
Thursday May 24, 2007
I admit it. I'm that guy - I'm that clean-cut white kid who loves Hip-Hop.
In fact, I am so fond of the genre, as fellow reporter Josh Kastrinsky has
told me, if the Reporter-Times were in need of a resident Hip-Hop
Correspondent I would be a lock for the position.
[ ... ]
When describing Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel "Lolita" on
Salon.com, Mary Elizabeth Williams writes that "what makes 'Lolita' a work
of greatness isn't that its title has become ingrained in the vernacular,
isn't that was a generation ahead of America in fetishizing young girls. No,
it is the writing, the way Nabokov bounces around in words like the English
language is a toy trunk, the sly wit, the way it's devastating and cynical
and heartbreaking all at once."
Like Nabokov, the most gifted hip-hop artists put you in their shoes, even
if you wouldn't want to know them in real life. That's something only the
best story-tellers can do.
Burgess is the education reporter for the Reporter-Times. He can be reached
by e-mail at rburgess@reportert.com.
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Search archive with Google:
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