Public Enemy’s groundbreaking album, Maya Angelou’s classic memoir and Angie Thomas on TLC

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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How Public Enemy brought the revolution to hip-hop with “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.” Plus, our Americans Icons segment on Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” which broke boundaries when it was published and still profoundly resonates with readers today. And Young Adult author Angie Thomas on how the late TLC performer Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes spoke to her at a very troubling point in her life.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:04.0	Today on Studio 360, we would promote gigs and put Malcolm X on the cover of flyers and
0:12.0	some cat would roll up to us and say, yo, who's this, Malcolm the 10th?
0:17.0	Public Enemy Number One.
0:19.0	How politics shaped public enemy and public enemy shaped politics.
0:23.9	That's what we say is important to see if we can use the music as it reaches people
0:28.9	and just fill it with something that means something.
0:33.4	Plus, how Maya Angela turned memories of the brutal racism of her childhood into a gorgeous, important book.
0:42.6	She identified with that caged bird with this tremendous impulse to fly, to be free of that cage.
0:58.0	An American icons feature about I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. That's ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:02.0	This is Studio 360. I'm Carnegie.
1:10.0	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of garden. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Anderson, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:12.9	This first level of garden.
1:14.3	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dower.
1:16.1	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
1:17.8	Very well done.
1:19.0	Editing is all about timing.
1:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.3	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:25.8	Studio 360.
1:27.7	With Kurt Anderson.
1:33.8	In the 1970s, Carlton Douglas Reidenhauer was a teenager in Queens, New York, and went to his first hip-hop shop.
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