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Sketches of My Culture by Dr. Cornel West released in 2001. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Feb 15, 2022 · A tasteful, jazzy trio supplies the backbeat to his spoken-word solos, fittingly working their way across the map of African-American music from gospel and jazz to hip-hop and funk. More intelligent and musical than any hip-hop CD on the racks, Sketches of My Culture is truly an original rap album — however you define it.
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- US
- Artemis Records-ARTCD-102
- CD, Album, Promo
- 2001
Jan 23, 2002 · On the opening track of Sketches of My Culture, “The Journey,” Harvard professor Cornel West follows the “guttural cries” of the middle passage to the musical “joy” — from gospel to hip hop —...
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- 5
- Hip Hop, Spoken Word
- Non-Music
- 2001
Nov 3, 2005 · Cornel West’s first album, “Sketches of My Culture,” got the professor in trouble with Larry Summers. “Street Knowledge” is his sophomore effort, and the powers that be over at...
Nov 2, 2014 · His writing—as well as his speaking, and sometimes rapping (in the case of his 2001 spoken-word album Sketches of My Culture )—displays a broad fluency in the American vernacular, pulling from a library of inspiration that stacks Duke Ellington beside Toni Morrison beside W.E.B. Du Bois.
