More, more, more: Extra hip-hop sources

5/21/2019

We've never enough time in this survey course to cover hip-hop to the level of depth students often crave. If you're left wanting more — or needing sources for your final project — be sure to check out the optional readings and viewings suggested on the schedule page. Jeff Chang's book is frequently regarded as a seminal summation of the genre's history, and The Anthology of Rap is notable not only for being a publishing milestone but also for its controversial errors (to which one of the editors responded in an interesting, lengthy interview).

Also, check out this list of "8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature." Wimsatt's Bomb the Suburbs, listed there, is a bonkers book in all the right ways — really worth checking out (which you can here!).

Got other recommendations? Post in the comments!

3 Comments

Emily Beihold

5/30/2019 07:09:08 pm

I found an interesting article about hip hop on JSTOR!
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt46npzx.5?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=hip&searchText=hop&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Facc%3Don%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3BQuery%3Dhip%2Bhop%26amp%3Bwc%3Don&ab_segments=0%2Fl2b_100k_with_tbsub%2Ftest&refreqid=search%3A8712d555c3a4c0cacf82c70ba6308a89&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Emily Beihold

5/30/2019 07:11:38 pm

Here's a shorter link: https://bit.ly/2W1pi1V

The article talks about racial relations to hip hop.

Thomas Conner

5/31/2019 08:31:48 am

That's a really interesting one, too. We discussed hip-hop's roots in African American culture far more than we followed its evolution into and through other cultures. This article provides a great starting point for that perspective.

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