Community Studies 101: an Interview with Kwaku Person-Lynn (Interview)

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kwaku Person-Lynn is a native of Los Angeles, a husband, father of five sons and two grandchildren. Professionally he is a historian, musicologist, educator, author, filmmaker, and radio producer. He has published two books (e.g., First Word: Black Scholars, Thinkers, Warriors: Knowledge, Wisdom, Mental Liberation. New York: Harlem River Press, 1996) and is currently working on a third (expected soon), and over 120 articles, essays and book chapters. In the early 1980s, his dissertation chapter "Rap Music--Afrikan Music Renaissance" was the first scholarly publication on rap/hip hop and has been published in several books and the Internet.