- Ernest Hardy
Ernest Hardy is a film and music
critic who is based inLos Angeles .Work
His criticism has appeared in the "LA Weekly", the "
LA Times ", "Vibe", the "New York Times ", "Rolling Stone ", the "Source", "Millennium Film" "Journal", "Flaunt", "Request", "Minneapolis City Pages", and the reference books "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" and "Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guid", among others.He has written liner notes for "Chuck D Presents: Louder Than a Bomb", the box-set "Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America", "Curtis Mayfield: Gospel", and the box-set "Superstars of Seventies' Soul".
He won the 2006 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence, honoring his liner notes for the Chet Baker CD, "Career 1952-1988". He is a Sundance Fellow and a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who has sat as a juror for the
Sundance Film Festival , the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, and Los Angeles Outfest.His book, "Blood Beats: Vol. 1 Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions", was written from a
critical center that ismelanin -based, pro-people-of-color, pro-homosexuality , and unabashedly-leftist. Subject matter ranges from undergroundhip-hop and Americanindie film to modernFrench cinema , from coolPOV-statement|date=March 2008 interviews withWarren Beatty , Meshell NdegeOcello, and Les Nubians to an essay on gayrap pers and queer rap audiences that pushes beyond the clichésPOV-statement|date=March 2008 of the media-stoked "down-low " phenomenon.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
