Lance Scott Walker's Books

DJ Screw

A Life in Slow Revolution

By: Lance Scott Walker

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DJ Screw

A Life in Slow Revolution

By: Lance Scott Walker

How a DJ's innovative chopped and screwed technique changed the Houston hip-hop scene.

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University of Texas Press

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1477325131

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DJ Screw

A Life in Slow Revolution

By: Lance Scott Walker

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A Life in Slow Revolution

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How a DJ's innovative chopped and screwed technique changed the Houston hip-hop scene.

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Houston Rap Tapes

An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop

By: Lance Scott Walker

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Houston Rap Tapes

An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop

By: Lance Scott Walker

The neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Fourth Ward, Third Ward, and the Southside of Houston, Texas, gave birth to Houston rap, a vibrant music scene that has produced globally recognized artists such as Geto Boys, DJ Screw, Pimp C and Bun B of UGK, Fat Pat, Big Moe, Z-Ro, Lil’ Troy, and Paul Wall. Lance Scott Walker and photographer Peter Beste spent a decade documenting Houston’s scene, interviewing and photographing the people—rappers, DJs, producers, promoters, record label owners—and places that give rap music from the Bayou City its distinctive character. Their collaboration produced the books Houston Rap and Houston Rap Tapes. This second edition of Houston Rap Tapes amplifies the city’s hip-hop history through new interviews with Scarface, Slim Thug, Lez Moné, B L A C K I E, Lil’ Keke, and Sire Jukebox of the original Ghetto Boys. Walker groups the interviews into sections that track the different eras and movements in Houston rap, with new photographs and album art that reveal the evolution of the scene from the 1970s to today’s hip-hop generation. The interviews range from the specifics of making music to the passions, regrets, memories, and hopes that give it life. While offering a view from some of Houston’s most marginalized areas, these intimate conversations lay out universal struggles and feelings. As Willie D of Geto Boys writes in the foreword, “Houston Rap Tapes flows more like a bunch of fellows who haven’t seen each other for ages, hanging out on the block reminiscing, rather than a calculated literary guide to Houston’s history.”

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University of Texas Press

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1477317937

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The Logic of Connective Action

Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

By: W. Lance Bennett,Alexandra Segerberg

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The Logic of Connective Action

Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

By: W. Lance Bennett,Alexandra Segerberg

The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated. In many of these mobilizations, communication operates as an organizational process that may replace or supplement familiar forms of collective action based on organizational resource mobilization, leadership, and collective action framing. In some cases, connective action emerges from crowds that shun leaders, as when Occupy protesters created media networks to channel resources and create loose ties among dispersed physical groups. In other cases, conventional political organizations deploy personalized communication logics to enable large-scale engagement with a variety of political causes. The Logic of Connective Action shows how power is organized in communication-based networks, and what political outcomes may result.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107434246

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The Democrats

A Critical History

By: Lance Selfa

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The Democrats

A Critical History

By: Lance Selfa

An assessment of the state of the Democratic Party in the new millennium, the betrayal of progressive ideals, and how real change can happen. The 2006 elections put the Democrats in the majority in both houses of Congress, yet those hoping for change were deeply disappointed. Likewise, the striking victory of Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008 created a wave of optimism, but the promise would not be fulfilled. In this book, Lance Selfa looks at the Democrats in a broad historical perspective, showing that today’s betrayals stem from the Democratic Party’s role as one of the two parties serving the interests of the US establishment, not of the broader public or its “base” of women, African Americans, trade union members, and working and poor people. Many other books on the Democrats have seen the party’s recent history as a departure from its storied past as the “party of the people.” Selfa’s book is one of the few written for a popular audience to challenge this myth and to put today’s legitimacy crisis in the Democratic Party in a historical perspective, encouraging us to think beyond the next election cycle. “Worthy reading for anyone who is interested in social change.” —MediaMouse “With a new, duly-deserved chapter on the Obama Era, Lance Selfa’s The Democrats reveals the many ways in which the establishment Democratic Party has not just dashed progressive hopes over centuries but served as a distraction from the desperately needed business of making real change in this country. Writing dismal history like this is dirty work, but somebody’s got to do it and Selfa’s straight talk actually lifts ones spirits.”—Laura Flanders, host of The Laura Flanders Show

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Haymarket Books

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1608460495

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9781608460496

Ty's Beanie Babies

Collector Handbook and Price Guide

By: Collectors Publishing Co,Joe T. Nguyen,Scott Sierakowski,David T. Eyck,Lance Doyle

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Ty's Beanie Babies

Collector Handbook and Price Guide

By: Collectors Publishing Co,Joe T. Nguyen,Scott Sierakowski,David T. Eyck,Lance Doyle

Collector handbook and price guide.

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Collectors' Publishing Company

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188891419X

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DJ Screw

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DJ Screw

Houston Rap Tapes

Houston Rap Tapes

The Logic of Connective Action

The Logic of Connective Action

The Democrats

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