Suggested Readings on Hiphop Culture

Adjaye, Joseph K., and Adrianne R. Andrews. Language, Rhythm, & Sound : Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-First Century. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. Baker, Houston. "Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990s." Black Music Research Journal 11.2 (1991): 217-28. Brackett, David. The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader : Histories and Debates. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Byone, Yvonne. Stand & Deliver Political Activisim, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2004. Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop Won't Stop a History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2005. Chang, Jeff. Total Chaos : The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2006. Cheney, Charise L. Brothers Gonna Work it Out : Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism. New York: New York University Press, 2005. Cooper, Martha, and Henry Chalfant. Subway Art. 1st American ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Cooper, Martha, and Nika Kramer. We b* Girlz. 1st ed. New York: powerHouse Books, 2005. D., Chuck, and Yusuf Jah. Fight the Power : Rap, Race, and Reality. New York: Delacorte Press, 1997. Darby, Derrick, and Tommie Shelby. Hip Hop and Philosophy : Rhyme 2 Reason. Vol. 16. Chicago: Open Court, 2005. Dyson, Michael Eric. Between God and Gangsta Rap : Bearing Witness to Black Culture. New York: Oxford Unviersity Press, 1996.

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---. Holler if You Hear Me : Searching for Tupac Shakur. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2001. Flores, Juan. From Bomba to Hip-Hop : Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Forman, Murray, and Mark Anthony Neal. That's the Joint! : The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004. Fricke, Jim, Charlie Ahearn, and Experience Music Project. Yes Yes y'all : The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop's First Decade. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002. George, Nelson. Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos : Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. ---. Hip Hop America. New York: Viking, 1998. ---. Post-Soul Nation : The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and before that Negroes). New York: Viking, 2004. Gwendolyn, D. Pough. Check it while I Wreck it: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2004. Hopkinson, Natalie, and Natalie Y. Moore. Deconstructing Tyron a New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. CLEIS Press, 2006.

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Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation : Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. 1st ed. New York: Basic Civitas, 2002. Krims, Adam. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. KRS-One, and Tavis Smiley. Ruminations. 1st ed. New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2003. Light, Alan. The Vibe History of Hip Hop. 1st ed. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. Morgan, Joan. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost : A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2000. Ogg, Alex, and David Upshal. The Hip-Hop Years : A History of Rap. London: Channel 4 Books, 1999. Perkins, William Eric. Droppin' Science : Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. Powell, Kevin. Who's Gonna Take the Weight? : Manhood, Race, and Power in America. 1st ed. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003. Rose, Tricia. Black Noise : Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press : Published by University Press of New England, 1994. Ross, Andrew, and Tricia Rose. Microphone Fiends : Youth Music & Youth Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994.

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Runell, Marcella, and Martha Diaz, eds. The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook. Vol. 1. New York: Lulu Press, 2007. Sexton, Adam. Rap on Rap : Straight-Up Talk on Hip-Hop Culture. New York: Delta, 1995. Stewart, Joseph. Subway Graffiti: An Aesthetic Study of Graffiti on the Subway System of NYC 1970-1978., 1989. Tanz, Jason. Other People's Property : A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2007. Toop, David. Rap Attack 2 : African Rap to Global Hip Hop. London ; New York: Serpent's Tail, 1994. Watkins, S. Craig. Hip Hop Matters : Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. Wimsatt, William Upski. Bomb the Suburbs. Rev. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Subway and Elevated Press, 1994.