Nelson George

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Nelson George (2014)

Nelson George (born September 1, 1957 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American author , music and culture critic , film and TV producer and television director . He is best known for his works on African American culture .

Life

George graduated from St. John's University in New York in 1982 . Until 1989 he wrote articles for Billboard magazine , which is why Prince composed a song called Bob George in 1986 ; the lyrics are about a misogynist with anti-social personality disorder and refer to Nelson George, among other things, because he had reported negatively about the musician in the past. The song can be found on the Black Album . In the 1980s, George published several books on African American music . He then became a columnist for the Village Voice . Further publications appeared in the New York Times , Esquire and Playboy , among others . In the 1990s he began to write books aside from music, including novels and screenplays for the films Strictly Business and CB4 (1993). 1992 George received a Grammy for their work on the liner notes to Star Time by James Brown .

He made his directorial debut in 2001 with the film One Special Moment, which was shown on BET . In 2007, HBO aired the film Life Support , the starring role of which was played by Queen Latifah . The film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and received two Emmy nominations, with Latifah also winning a Golden Globe .

He is currently Executive Producer of American Gangster on BET and Co-Executive Producer of the annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors .

Works

George writes both nonfiction and novels, but is far better known for his "non-fictional" works. These mostly revolve around specific aspects of African American culture, mainly African American music, but also about African American film and basketball . George puts these aspects in context with the culture through which they emerged or still emerge, thereby illuminating their mutual effects. His motivation to write books stemmed from the knowledge that nobody wrote the books that he himself would have liked to read. He therefore writes these for people who are similar to what he once did.

His best-known and, with the exception of Urban Romance , the only works that have been translated into German are The Death of Rhythm & Blues (German: R&B - The history of black music ) and Hip Hop America (German: XXX - Three decades of HipHop ), which began in 1999 with was awarded the American Book Award .

His novels mostly have erotic content . According to his own statement, they stimulate his imagination and thus serve him as a counterpoint to his factual works.

" These books and stories were created to balance me out, to give voice to a side of me that I really enjoy exposing. "

- George on his homepage

literature

Non-fiction

Novels

Web links

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  1. ↑ "Standing Above the Crowd: Platforms and Publicity in a Crowded Marketplace" ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.authorsguildfoundation.org
  2. ^ A b "My Life As an Erotic Writer" , March 28, 2008
personal data
SURNAME George, Nelson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, music and culture critic, film and TV producer, and television director
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York