DMI Student Featured in new book release-"Let The World Listen Right"
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
, Posted by Tricia Walker at 2:39 PM
Jerome "Top Notch" Williams, a DMI student from Clarksdale, Mississippi, is the featured focus of a new book, Let The World Listen Right, written by author Ali Neff and published by University Press of Mississippi.
Let the World Listen Right draws from classic studies of the blues as well as extensive ethnographic work to document the "changing same" of Delta music making. The book focuses particularly on the biography of TopNotch, whose hip-hop poetics emerge from a lifetime of schoolyard dozens and training in the gospel church.
Top Notch is the visionary behind the creation of the Delta Hip Hop Conference, held for the past two years on the campus of Delta State University and hosted by the Delta Music Institute. dmi.deltastate.edu
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