Ernest Hardy

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Ernest Hardy is a film and music critic who is based in Los Angeles.

[edit] 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 is melanin-based, pro-people-of-color, pro-homosexuality, and unabashedly-leftist. Subject matter ranges from underground hip-hop and American indie film to modern French cinema, from cool[neutrality disputed] interviews with Warren Beatty, Meshell NdegeOcello, and Les Nubians to an essay on gay rappers and queer rap audiences that pushes beyond the clichés[neutrality disputed] of the media-stoked "down-low" phenomenon.