Rebels without a pause
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRX
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Thirty years ago, Public Enemy brought the revolution to hip-hop with “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.” Kurt Andersen talks with the graphic designer Bonnie Siegler about the history of protest art. And the newspaper comic “Nancy” gets a reboot and its first female cartoonist.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRX |
| 0:03.4 | This is Studio 360. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Curtis, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. |
| 0:13.1 | This first level of garden. |
| 0:14.4 | This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden. |
| 0:16.3 | I like to have the roasted chicken base. |
| 0:17.9 | Very well done. |
| 0:19.1 | Editing is all about timing. |
| 0:23.3 | I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject. |
| 0:25.2 | You must get sick of your own voice, right? |
| 0:28.8 | Studio 360. It's good. Anderson. |
| 0:41.9 | In the 1970s, Carlton Douglas Ridenhauer was a teenager in Queens, New York, and went to his first hip-hop show. |
| 0:51.1 | The music hadn't started yet, and he didn't quite know what to make of the equipment he saw on stage, as he told an interviewer in 2001. |
| 0:55.0 | I was totally confused. I was like, why they need two turntables? Case the one over there breaks down. |
| 0:58.0 | This person is very prepared. |
| 1:01.0 | He figured it out, had his aha moment, and in short order became a rap superstar himself. |
| 1:10.0 | Ridenauer is much better known by his stage name, Chuck D. |
| 1:14.8 | And Chuck D. is, of course, the leader of the group Public Enemy. |
| 1:19.1 | 30 years ago this week, Public Enemy released, |
| 1:21.5 | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. |
| 1:24.3 | That album was aggressively political and generally considered one of the most important ever. |
| 1:31.9 | Our story of the Public Enemy album that dropped this week in 1988 begins with a long-time fan of the band. |
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