Midnight Marauders: A Quest Narrative

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dc.contributor.advisorGeorge, Diana Hume
dc.contributor.advisorOrange, Michelle
dc.contributor.advisorBlais, Madeline
dc.contributor.advisorLevenson, Jacob
dc.contributor.authorBurke, Porscha
dc.contributor.departmentRobert S. Welch Center for Graduate and Professional Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.programMFA in Creative Nonfictionen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-10T21:11:21Z
dc.date.available2017-01-10T21:11:21Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-09
dc.description.abstractMidnight Marauders: A Quest Narrative offers a nostalgic trek through the New York of 1993, the golden era hip-hop scene, and a Queens girl’s coming of age. A Tribe Called Quest—Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jarobi, Phife Dawg, and Q-Tip—released their first album in 1990, shattering restrictions on what rap music could be. That same year, hailing from the guys’ same St. Albans, Queens neighborhood, Porscha Burke’s mother, Linda, began managing producers at Rush, rap’s iconic management company. Rush’s downtown offices provided a front-row seat to hip-hop’s transformation from urban subculture to mainstream media—punctuated by colorful characters like Lyor Cohen, Flavor Flav, Redman, and Q-Tip. By Tribe’s third album, Midnight Marauders, their eclectic, sophisticated sound blending jazz, soul, and street poetry had established the guys as some of the genre’s greatest. Porscha took her Tribe-flavored Queens seasoning and stories of celebrity encounters to boarding school in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where Tribe’s music helped her find her place in a new and diverse world. Porscha turned fifteen the day Midnight Marauders went on-sale, and it immediately became a cornerstone of her identity. This narrative uses the album, discussing it song by song, as a portal to questions of black identity, womanhood, spirituality, art, and love.en_US
dc.format.extent205 p.en_US
dc.genremanuscriptsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2WC28
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/3768
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectA Tribe Called Questen_US
dc.subjectElectric Relaxationen_US
dc.subjectHip-Hopen_US
dc.subjectJarobi Whiteen_US
dc.subjectJazzen_US
dc.subjectKamaal Fareeden_US
dc.subjectLarge Professoren_US
dc.subjectMidnight Maraudersen_US
dc.subjectMusicen_US
dc.subjectNew Yorken_US
dc.subjectMalik Tayloren_US
dc.subjectPhife Dawgen_US
dc.subjectQ-Tipen_US
dc.subjectQueensen_US
dc.subjectDobbs Ferryen_US
dc.subjectRapen_US
dc.subjectRush Artist Managementen_US
dc.subjectRush Producers Managementen_US
dc.subjectSt. Albansen_US
dc.subjectBoarding Schoolen_US
dc.subject.lcshCreative nonfiction -- Theses.
dc.titleMidnight Marauders: A Quest Narrativeen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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