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An International Bibliography and Resource Guide By John Gray Price: $150.00 Binding: Cloth ISBN: 9780984413461 1136 pages African Diaspora Press Pub. Date: September 2016 SUBJECTS Music -- Popular Dance -- Popular Popular Culture Youth Studies Ethnic Studies SERIES TITLE: Black Music Reference Series SERIES NUMBER: 7

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"...a worthwhile addition to all music collections...Highly recommended. All libraries. All levels." -- Choice

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This remarkable new study provides the first comprehensive overview of the burgeoning field of Hip-Hop Studies and its enormous literature. Comprised of more than 7000 entries it encompasses both the early journalistic and popular writing on the subject as well as the wealth of scholarship that has emerged since the mid-1990s. The book’s main focus is on three of hip-hop’s most important facets—MCing, Djing and dance—along with a variety of related dance music styles, e.g., house, techno, and reggaeton. Highlights include the work’s in-depth topical and regional coverage which documents hip-hop’s history and evolution, both at home and abroad, as well as its enormous biographical section which covers almost 1900 individual MCs, DJs, dancers, record producers, and others.

Entries in Hip-Hop Studies span from the first reports on the then nascent idiom in 1978 to the most recent digital scholarship of 2014 in fields ranging from history, anthropology, and sociology to Black and ethnic studies, gender studies, religious studies, law and economics. The book concludes with an extensive reference section that offers a list of Sources Consulted, a guide to relevant Libraries and Archives, two appendices, and separate Author and Subject Indexes. An essential resource for all academic and large public libraries.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction I.   GENERAL WORKS II.  TOPICAL STUDIES          Advertising/Marketing          Aesthetics          Alternative Rap          Authenticity          Bibliographies          Black Identity          Censorship/First Amendment Issues          Crime/Criminal Justice System          Dance          Discographies          Djing and Turntablism          Drugs/Alcohol          Economic Aspects          Education          Equipment and Technology          Family (Clans, Cliques, Posses)          Film, Television, and Video          Five Percent Nation          Gangsta Rap          Gender and Sexuality               Men               Women          Internet/Cyberculture          Islam          Jazz          Journalism/Media               The Source               Vibe          Language and Linguistics          Lexicons          Lyrics          MCing/Rapping          Methods          Oral Traditions (Toasts, The Dozens, etc.)          Other Styles of Electronic Dance Music (House, Techno, etc.)          Photography          Politics          Race and Ethnicity          Radio          Recording Industry               Death Row Records               Def Jam Records               Interscope Records               Jive Records               Murder Inc.               Priority Records               Profile Records               Time Warner          Religion and Spirituality          Sampling          Style and Fashion          Therapeutic Aspects          Violence               Stop the Violence Movement          Visual Aesthetics               Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhyme & Rage          Whites and Whiteness III.  REGIONAL STUDIES           Albania           Algeria           Angola           Argentina           Australia           Austria           Balkans           Belgium           Benin           Bolivia           Bosnia & Herzegovina           Brazil           Bulgaria           Burkina Faso           California           Cambodia           Cameroon           Canada           Chile           China           Colombia           Colorado           Connecticut           Cote d’Ivoire           Croatia           Cuba           Cyprus           Czech Republic           Democratic Republic of Congo           Denmark           District of Columbia           Dominican Republic           Ecuador           Egypt           Equatorial Guinea           Estonia           Finland           Florida           France           Gabon           Georgia           Georgia, Republic of           Germany           Ghana           Great Britain and Wales           Greece           Guadeloupe           Guinea           Hawaii           Hungary           Iceland           Illinois           India           Indiana           Indonesia           Iran           Iraq           Israel/Palestine           Italy           Jamaica           Japan           Jordan           Kenya           Lebanon           Liberia           Libya           Louisiana           Madagascar           Malawi           Malaysia           Mali           Martinique           Maryland           Massachusetts           Mauritania           Mauritius           Mexico           Michigan           Minnesota           Mississippi           Missouri           Mongolia           Morocco           Myanmar           Netherlands, The           Nevada           New Jersey           New York           New Zealand           Niger           Nigeria           North Carolina           Norway           Oregon           Pacific Islands/Oceania           Pakistan           Panama           Pennsylvania           Peru           Philippines           Poland           Portugal           Puerto Rico           Reunion           Romania           Russia           Scotland           Senegal           Serbia           Sierra Leone           Singapore           Slovakia           Slovenia           Somalia           South Africa           South Korea           Spain           Sri Lanka           Sudan           Sweden           Switzerland           Syria           Taiwan           Tanzania           Tennessee           Texas           Trinidad           Tunisia           Turkey           Tuva           Uganda           Ukraine           Utah           Venezuela           Virginia           Washington           Wisconsin           Zimbabwe IV.  BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES Sources Consulted Libraries and Archives Appendix I: List of Individuals and Ensembles by Idiom/Occupation Appendix II: List of Individuals and Ensembles by Country Author Index Subject Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN GRAY is a veteran independent scholar specializing in the expressive arts and culture of Africa and the African Diaspora. His previous publications include Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan; Afro-Brazilian Music; Afro-Cuban Music; Jamaican Popular Music; From Vodou to Zouk; African Music; Fire Music; and Blacks in Classical Music. His work Baila! A Bibliographic Guide to Afro-Latin Dance Musics from Mambo to Salsa, was the recipient of the 2015 Vincent H. Duckles Award (for best book-length bibliography or reference work published in 2013) from the Music Library Association.