New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture

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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison records and performs under the moniker “Mad Squirrel” and has co-founded two groups—the San-Francisco-based Forest Fires Collective and Washington DC’s The Acorns—as well as releasing various solo projects.

Harrison is the author of Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification (Temple UP, 2009).

Song credits from this episode:

  1. Murs/ F'Real/ Say Anything/ 1997
  2. Zagu Brown/Dont Believe It/ Projects/1996
  3. Top Ramen/ Hardly Celebrity: Pimp Shit/Freestyle/2000
  4. FundaMentals/The Pattern Fall Wars/Falling Down/1996
  5. Jun Dax/ Spills/2000AD—Two Zero/2000
  6. Mad Squirrel/ Pinko/Triple A/2002
  7. Salty Brown/ Salty Brown Is A Seasoned Vet/Salty Brown/2012
  8. Salty Brown/ Salty Brown Is A Seasoned Vet/O.W.M./2012
  9. Mad Squirrel/Last Days of Squirrel/Initiative—Intro/2021

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