Subject
Research Guides
First Year Seminars:
Hip-Hop & American Culture
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links.
Background Information Sources
| Search in most sources for common terms such as “hip hop,” “rap music,” “breakdancing,” “graffiti,” etc. | |
| St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture | REF E169.1 .S764 2000 |
| The African American Almanac | REF E185 .A2595 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History | REF E185.E54 1996 |
| Black Women in America | REF E185.86 .B542 1993 |
| Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance | REF GV1588.6 .M43 1997 |
| Encyclopedia of American Social History (pre-1993 artists) | REF HN57 .E58 1993 |
| Twentieth-Century Teen Culture By the Decades | REF HQ799 .U65 R65 1999 |
| Women and Music in America Since 1900 | REF ML82 .W625 2002 |
| The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Volume 3 | REF ML100 .G16 1998 v.3 |
| Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | REF ML100 .N48 2001 |
| Violence and the Media | REF P96.V5 N48 1996 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers ML3531.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- InfoTrac: Use General Reference Center Gold for newspaper and scholarly journal articles, Biography Resource Center for individual artist information, and General Business File ASAP and Business and Company ASAP for information on clothing lines, record labels, etc.
- LexisNexis Academic Universe: Provides articles from a collection of scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers from the past ten years.
- Available in print: Essence, Ebony, RollingStone and Spin magazines.
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page.
- Hiphop Portal
http://www.hiphoparchive.org
Scholarly resource on hip hop culture, includes extensive bibliography. - Davey D’s Hip Hop Daily News
http://www.daveyd.com
Provides news articles, interviews, reviews, history, photos, music charts, radio shows, etc. - The Original Hip Hop Lyrics Archive
http://www.ohhla.com/
Broad collection of rap and hip hop lyrics. - Art Crimes
http://www.graffiti.org
Site dedicated to graffiti documentation, provides photos of national and international artwork. - @149st
http://www.at149st.com/
Another great graffiti site, including photos, history and crew profiles and dozens of useful links. - Hip Hop Summit Action Network
http://www.hiphopsummitactionnetwork.org
Non-profit organization that uses hip hop as a means for political and social action. - Female Hip Hop.Net
http://www.femalehiphop.net
Provides database of female artists including dancers and graffiti artists, also excellent bibliography.