One Day It'll All Make Sense went on to become a New York Times bestseller. The late author Maya Angelou called it a "magnificent memoir." The journalist and author Touré described it as "a thoughtful and beautiful book." It won the 2012 Street Lit Book Award for Adult Nonfiction. The book follows Common's life from his childhood on the South Side of Chicago to his multidimensional entertainment career today. In 2011, Bradley collaborated with the rapper and actor Common on Common's memoir, One Day It'll All Make Sense. At 900 pages, the Anthology collects and organizes nearly three hundred lyrics from across hip hop's history. In 2010, Bradley (along with co-editor, Andrew DuBois) published The Anthology of Rap, which was described as "an English major's hip-hop bible". Writing in Library Journal, Joshua Finnell noted that "Bradley is emerging as a pioneering scholar in the study of hip-hop." In 2013, Book of Rhymes was selected by the University of Pennsylvania as their summer reading text for first-year students, an honor previously bestowed on Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. For an English professor, Adam Bradley got some flow of his own." While critiquing the book's defense of hip hop culture, The New York Times called it "a triumph of jargon free scrutiny". The Boston Globe wrote, "Biggie had flow Jay-Z has flow. Among the key critical concepts Bradley introduces is the dual rhythmic relationship, the collaboration of voice and beat in rap music. In the second part, he looks at style, storytelling, and signifying. In the first part of the book, he analyzes rap's rhythm, rhyme, and wordplay. Bradley argues that "the book of rhymes is where rap becomes poetry". The term "book of rhymes" is a reference to the composition notebooks rappers often use to compose and to collect their rhymes. His first book, Book of Rhymes, applies the tools of poetic analysis to the beats and rhymes of hip hop. Works on song lyrics īradley is recognized for bringing the study of literary criticism to song lyrics. In 2013, Bradley founded the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab), "an interdisciplinary space for developing and exchanging ideas at the intersection of race and popular culture." Among its initiatives is Hip Hop in the Classroom, which uses rap music to help middle school and high school teachers increase their students' interest in the language arts. In 2009, he became a tenured associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. After a fellowship at Dartmouth College, Bradley accepted an assistant professorship at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. in English from Harvard University, where he studied with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Working with Ellison's unpublished manuscripts proved a formative experience for Bradley, who decided to attend graduate school to study English so that he could continue collaborating with Callahan on Ellison's papers. Upon his death in 1994, Ellison left behind thousands of manuscript pages and computer files related to his long-in-progress second novel, a follow-up to his 1952 classic, Invisible Man. Callahan, a friend and soon-to-be-named literary executor of the late African-American novelist Ralph Ellison. As a sophomore at Lewis & Clark, Bradley began working as a research assistant for Professor John F. After graduating from Olympus High School in Salt Lake City, Bradley went on to complete a BA degree in English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Bradley's grandparents home-schooled him until high school, emphasizing a liberal arts curriculum. Bradley's mother pulled him out of school and moved back to Salt Lake City with her parents, both educators. As a first-grade student in a Los Gatos, California elementary school his teacher informed his mother that her son was a nice boy, but should be held back a grade. Early life īradley was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Jane Bradley and Jim Terry. He is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles where he directs the Laboratory for Race & Popular Culture (RAP Lab). His commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and in numerous other publications. Bradley has written extensively on song lyrics as well as on the literature and legacy of the American novelist Ralph Ellison. Adam Bradley (born 1974) is an American literary critic, professor, and a writer on popular culture.
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