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• Hip Hop in America

  a Regional Guide

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  Thoroughly researched, thoroughly in tune with the culture, Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide profiles two dozen specific hip hop scenes across the United States, showing how each place shaped a singular identity. Through its unique geographic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Music Guide to Hip-hop

  the Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop

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  From the irresistible party jams of old-school rap to the gritty sound of hardcore, hip-hop has electrified the music world and influenced global culture like nothing else. The All Music Guide to Hip-Hop features over 3 100 reviews and ratings,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hip-hop & Rap

  Complete Lyrics for 175 Songs ; [Preface by Spence D.]

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  Once considered an outsider art form, the music that originated from the streets of New York City has now become the new rock'n'roll, a major force dictating the trends of the day. Everything from fashion and advertising to literature and film has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hip Hop, Bring the Noise

  the Stories Behind the Biggest Songs

  Kulkarui, Neil

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  Rap is generally acknowledged as originating from New York, when the Jamaican-born DJ Cool Herc started spinning discs for parties in the late seventies. People would originally talk and then "rap" over the top of this. From there it spread all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hip Hop America

  George, Nelson

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  Examines the contribution of entrepreneurship, music technology, and Black slang to the success of rap music; explores rap's controversial themes; and analyzes its popularity.

• Chronicling Stankonia

  the Rise of the Hip-hop South

  Bradley, Regina N., 1984-

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  This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post-civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dirty South

  Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-hop

  Westhoff, Ben

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  Acting as both investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Ben Westhoff journeys across the southern United States in a small Hyundai to document the phenomenon of southern hip-hop. The exclusive interviews with the genre's prominent players…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hip Hop in American Cinema

  Donalson, Melvin Burke, 1952-

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  Hip Hop in American Cinema examines the manner in which American feature films have served as the primary medium for mainstreaming hip hop culture into American society. With their glamorizing portrayals of graffiti writing, break dancing, rap…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Representing

  Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema

  Watkins, S. Craig (Samuel Craig)

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  In this engaging and provocative book, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the most important developments in the recent history of black cinema--the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films." Representing explores a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home With Hip Hop Feminism

  Performances in Communication and Culture

  Durham, Aisha S., 1977-

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  Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the imagined and real body converge or collide.

• Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak

  Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South

  Love, Bettina L., 1979-

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  Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Girls Make Some Noise

  Hip-hop Feminism Anthology

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  Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminist Anthology seeks to complicate understandings of Hip-Hop as a male space by including and identifying the women who were always involved with the culture. The anthology explores Hip-Hop as a worldview, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hip-hop Underground and African American Culture

  Beneath the Surface

  Peterson, James Braxton, 1971-

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  Peterson explores a variety of 'underground' concepts at the intersections of African American literature and Hip Hop Culture. From the Underground Railroad to black holes or from kiln holes to solitary confinement, this project makes meaningful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hip Hop Generation

  Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture

  Kitwana, Bakari

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  Young blacks born between 1965 and 1984 belong to the first generation to have grown up in post-segregation America. Their historical significance is tremendous, but until now there has been no in-depth study of the African American youth who are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-hop History

  Chuck D, 1960-

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  A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world. Based on Chuck's long-running show on Rapstation.com, this massive compendium details the most iconic moments and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hip Hop Family Tree

  Piskor, Ed,

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  Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree has been a global phenomenon and perennial bestseller since the first (of four) volumes was published in 2013. Yet the series has never been collected under one cover. Until now. This omnibus collection includes the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hip-hop in Africa

  Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers

  Clark, Msia Kibona,

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  Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa's biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African narratives of social, political, and economic realities. Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Afro-Colombian Hip-hop

  Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities

  Dennis, Christopher, 1974-

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  Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture--specifically hip-hop and rap--are having on the social identities of younger generations of black Colombians. Along with addressing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hip Hop Desis

  South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness

  Sharma, Nitasha Tamar, 1973-

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  Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young "hip hop desis" express a global race consciousness that reflects both their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cuban Underground Hip Hop

  Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity

  Saunders, Tanya L.,

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  Cuban Underground Hip Hop focuses on a group of self-described antiracist, revolutionary youth who initiated a social movement (1996-2006) to educate and fight against social inequalities through the use of arts-based political activism intended to…Read moreRead more of this annotation