Hip hop foundations
January 2019
Repertoire
Books
Articles
- Sugar Hill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight” (1979).
- Afrika Bambaataa, “Planet Rock“ (1982).
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message” (1982).
- MC Lyte, “I Cram to Understand You” (1986).
- Run-DMC, “Walk This Way” (1986).
- Salt N Peppa, “I’ll Take Your Man” (1986).
- Eric B. & Rakim, “Paid in Full” (1988).
- NWA, “Straight Outta Compton” (1988).
- 2 Live Crew, “Me So Horny” (1989).
- Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” (1989).
- Queen Latifah, “U.N.I.T.Y.” (1989).
- A Tribe Called Quest, "Can I Kick It?" (1990).
- Dr. Dre, “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” (1992).
- Nas, “N.Y. State of Mind” (1994).
- Notorious B.I.G., “Big Poppa” (1994).
- Tupac, “California Love” (1995).
- Lil’ Jon & The East Side Boyz, “Who You Wit” (1996).
- Lauryn Hill, “Doo Wop (That Thing)” (1998).
- Eminem, “My Name Is” (1999).
- Jay-Z, “Big Pimpin’” (2000).
- Ludacris, “What’s Your Fantasy” (2000).
- Outkast, “B.O.B.” (2000).
Books
- Bradley, Adam. 2009. Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop. New York: Basic Civitas Books.
- Chang, Jeff. 2005. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
- Forman, Murray. 2002. The ’Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.
- Kajikawa, Loren. 2015. Sounding Race in Rap Songs. First edition. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
- Katz, Mark. 2012. Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Keyes, Cheryl Lynette. 2002. Rap Music and Street Consciousness. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Lee, Jooyoung. 2016. Blowin’ up: Rap Dreams in South Central. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Perkins, William Eric., and Afrika Bambaataa, eds. 1996. Droppin’ Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- Perry, Imani. 2004. Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Pough, Gwendolyn D. 2004. Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
- Rose, Tricia. 1994. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press.
- Sarig, Roni. 2007. Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing. Da Capo Press.
- Schloss, Joseph Glenn. 2004. Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.
- Toop, David. 1984. The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop. Boston: South End Press.
- Williams, Justin A. 2013. Rhymin’ and Stealin’: Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press.
Articles
- Bradley, Regina N. 2015. “Barbz and Kings: Explorations of Gender and Sexuality in Hip-Hop.” In The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop, edited by Justin A. Williams, 181–91. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
- Carney, Christina, Jillian Hernandez, and Anya M. Wallace. 2016. “Sexual Knowledge and Practiced Feminisms: On Moral Panic, Black Girlhoods, and Hip Hop.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 28 (4): 412–26.
- Chapter from Potter, Russell A. 1995. Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- Saucier, P. Khalil, and Tryon P. Woods. 2014. “Hip Hop Studies in Black.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 26 (2–3): 268–94.
- Sewell, Amanda. 2014. “How Copyright Affected the Musical Style and Critical Reception of Sample-Based Hip-Hop.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 26 (2–3): 295–320.
- Walser, Robert. 1995. “Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rhetoric in the Music of Public Enemy.” Ethnomusicology 39 (2): 193–217.