Music & Politics I – Hip Hop
For today:
- Read – Murray Forman, “Conscious Hip-Hop, Change, and the Obama Era,” American Studies Journal, Vol. 54 (2010).
- Read – El Haqed, “My Journey to Rap, Politics and Prison,” Al Jazeera, Oct 6, 2014.
- Listen – Killer Mike: ‘Rap Has Given Me Voice’, NPR, Nov 28, 2014.
- In class – Screening of Slingshot Hip Hop (a documentary about hip hop in Palestine and Israel).
- KEYWORDS: Hip Hop, Postindustrialism, Representation, Counter Hegemonic
For further reading and research:
- Interview with The Coup’s Boots Riley, SF Weekly, July 17, 2013.
- Robin D.G. Kelley, “Kickin’ Reality, Kickin’ Ballistics: ‘Gangsta Rap’ and Postindustrial Los Angeles,” in Race Rebels.
- That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, 1st Edition (2004).
- Tricia Rose, Chapters 1-6 in The Hip Hop Wars (2008).
- Tricia Rose, “A Style Nobody Can Deal With,” in Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (Routledge, 1994), pp. 71-88.