{"id":1021,"date":"2016-10-10T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2016-10-12T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:30:17","slug":"jooyoung-lee-on-blowin-up-rap-dreams-in-south-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2016\/10\/10\/jooyoung-lee-on-blowin-up-rap-dreams-in-south-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Jooyoung Lee on Blowin&#8217; Up: Rap Dreams in South Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">In this episode, I talk to University of Toronto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.utoronto.ca\/people\/Research_and_Teaching_Faculty\/jooyounglee.htm\">professor Jooyoung Lee<\/a>, author of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/B\/bo23290878.html\">Blowin\u2019 Up: Rap Dreams in South Central<\/a><\/i>. This conversation focuses on the book as well as Professor Lee\u2019s experiences writing the book.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia\">For some context, set in South Central Los Angeles, Professor Lee worked in and around Project Blowed, an open mic venue that functioned as a kind of hub for a large underground hip-hop community in Los Angeles. For some vocabulary,\u00a0\u201cBlowin\u2019 Up\u201d refers to getting attention\/ fame\/ money\/ recognition in wider society and a\u00a0\u201cBlowedian\u201d is a member of Project Blowed.\u00a0<\/span>Our conversations covers topics from what it means to be an insider in ethnography, to Professor Lee\u2019s experiences\u00a0\u2018defending the block\u2019 from intruders with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CtNw8A206fM\">his dance skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH124_Lee.mp3\">Download Office Hours #124<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, I talk to University of Toronto professor Jooyoung Lee, author of Blowin\u2019 Up: Rap Dreams in South Central. This conversation focuses on the book as well as Professor Lee\u2019s experiences writing the book.\u00a0For some context, set in South Central Los Angeles, Professor Lee worked in and around Project Blowed, an open mic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[15,1747,115,14,3365,175],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-race","tag-rap","tag-sociology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2016\/10\/9780226348896.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}