"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed journalist and screenwriter behind the 90’s classic “Harlem ... The following year, Cooper wrote “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters Raise ...

In Black pop cultural circles, Cooper was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile for “The Village Voice” on Teddy Riley ... and early 90s; Riley’s sound ...

In Black pop cultural circles, Cooper was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile for “The Village Voice” on Teddy Riley. The sound would come to define that of urban ...

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Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for his work on 'New Jack City' and 'Sugar Hill,' has died. He was 66.

and remains one of the classic 90s R&B records of all time. 1996 was a good year for R&B – especially for Blackstreet. Teddy Riley had initially offered “No Diggity” to the group Guy ...

While at The Village Voice, he wrote a piece titled “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing ... following his screenwriting run in the ’90s. Cooper is survived by his son, Matthew.

Mr. Cooper captured the glitter as well as the bloodshed of a new generation of 1980s and ’90s hustlers who flashed ... invoked the term in 1988 with “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing ...

Barry helped define pop culture in the ‘80s and ‘90s with his early reporting on crack, by naming Teddy Riley’s sound “new jack swing,” and writing star vehicles for Wesley Snipes (New ...

Teddy “Ted” Dexter Wanamaker was 90 years old and passed away January 18 ... Diana Wanamaker and Valerie Kemp and a proud grandparent to Sean Riley and Kevin Riley. His focus all his life was to keep ...