Dan Charnas
Author, journalist and music executive
Dan Charnas is an American author, journalist and former record company executive. He wrote Work Clean, which brings professional kitchen methods into everyday work and life.
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American Born 1967 in New York City, United States
About Dan Charnas
Dan Charnas started out as a hip-hop journalist and was one of the early writers for The Source. He later worked at Profile Records and ran the rap division of American Recordings, a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records. Work Clean takes methods used by professional chefs and shows how they can organize work and daily life. His other books include The Big Payback, a history of the hip-hop business, and Dilla Time, about the producer J Dilla. Charnas co-created and executive produced the VH1 series The Breaks. He is an associate professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, teaching at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. In 2025 he received the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.