Fatherhood 4.0, the book!
Our team has destroyed the Canadian media, as we’ve gotten book coverage in every significant major Canadian news media! Here’s a blurb on what the book is about BELOW…continue to support BIG IDEAS, and go cop a copy at your fave bookseller or online at Chapters/Indigo or Amazon.com!
Some of Canada’s most acclaimed multicultural personalities, public figures, intellectuals, entertainers, athletes, and activists share stories, memories, insights, and revelations about fatherhood, from the comic to the tragic. Through critical essays, first-person musings, interviews, conversations, spoken word, and dub poetry, this collection examines the place where cross-cultural fatherhood intersects with the worlds of technology, hip hop, and hipster culture — a cool diverse dads movement!
Fatherhood 4.0 spots trends across a newer generation of media-savvy multi-culti dads influenced by everything from George Lopez and Bill Cosby to the Osbournes and Obama, with keen insights and essays from fatherhood activists. It includes essays on the “baby daddy” phenomenon and Bob Marley, pops in popular culture, technology and parenting, and crucial research on aboriginal fatherhood by Dr. Jessica Ball.
The book contains candid interviews with: The Argo’s Michael “Pinball” Clemons, Broken Social Scene’s Charles Spearin, Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham, D.C United’s Dwayne De Rosario, Peep Diaries’ Hal Niedzvicki, Lawrence Hill (The Book of Negroes), and many more!
Got Milk (and Media)
Hip Hop World has gotten great media in its first number of weeks, including COVER STORY features in the Toronto Star, York U’s Excalibur, Share Newspaper, awesome reviews & interviews in Now Magazine, Exclaim, AOL Canada/Spinner, Gleaner, Eye Weekly, Peace Magazine, Quill & Quire, Sway Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Urbanology, The Manitoban among many others. I conducted fun TV interviews with City TV’s Breakfast TV, Much Music news, MTV News, CBC’s The National, SUN TV’s “Canoe Live”, Rogers “Daytime”, OMNI TV’s “Bollywood Boulevard”, awesome radio interviews on 680 News, CBC Radio One’s Metro Morning, Here and Now and Big City, Small World (who ran a live to tape of my book launch). Hip Hop World made it onto Michelle Landsberg’s Summer 2010 CBC Children’s Book Panel “book picks”…we also got a wack of awesome web magazine interviews, reviews and blog features with great photography on Torontoist, The Ryersonian, Open Book Toronto, Toro Magazine, CBC’s Book Club, 1 Love TO, Humber College’s Et Cetera, CMJ – Performer Mag, City On My Back, CM Magazine, etc.,….first Canada, then the (Hip Hop) World! Takeover is imminent… shoot me any web posts you find to: daltonhiggins@gmail.com
A Bientot
Hip Hop World
An excerpt from Hip Hop World (Groundwood Books):
IT’S A HIP HOP WORLD, and you’re just living in it. For most music-addicted earthlings, hip hop culture is the predominant global youth subculture of today. For the non-music initiated, hip hop has become the black jewelry-laden elephant in the room filled with rock, country and classical music — an attention grabber whose influence is impossible to miss on the daily news, in school playgrounds, during water cooler conversations or in a political debate.
What is hip hop, and why should you care about it? Hip hop — a term coined by pioneering rapper Space Cowboy in the early 1970s to mimic a scat, and then popularized later by rapper Lovebug Starski — is quite simply the world’s leading counterculture, subculture and youth culture. Hip hop encompasses four distinct elements: vocalizing (rapping/emceeing), visual art (graffiti), dance (breakdancing) and manipulation of pre-recorded music (deejaying).
Much has been written about hip hop’s gritty African-American origins in the South Bronx, but the primary American consumers are young suburban whites whose fascination with black youth culture has led to Caucasian rappers Eminem and the Beastie Boys becoming two of the biggest-selling rap artists of all time. Once a predominantly African-American youth form of expression, or as legendary hip hop group Public Enemy’s lead vocalist Chuck D once called it, the black people’s CNN, rap has taken root around the world as a primary news source for disenfranchised Asian, South Asian, First Nations, Latin American, Australian, African, Middle Eastern and European publics.
Buy Hip Hop World here.
