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Red Hot Riot

Posted on September 14, 2009 - 2:17pm — akadagathur

Author

First Name:

Various Artists

Subtitle:

The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti

Publish City:

Santa Monica

Publish Company:

MCA: Universal Music Company

Language:

English

Medium:

Audio

Year:

2002

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Hot-Riot-Music-Spirit/dp/B00006LWSB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252952048&sr=1-1

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Hip Hop Matters

Posted on August 5, 2009 - 3:17pm — archive_staff

Author

First Name:

S. Craig

Last Name:

Watkins

Subtitle:

Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement

Publish City:

Boston

Publish Company:

Beacon Press

ISSN/ISBN:

807009822

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

Year:

2005

Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is the impact hip hop has on the lives of the young people who live and breathe the culture.

Pages:

295

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807009865/qid=1147732386/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4800545-2071111?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

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Desis in the House

Posted on August 4, 2009 - 1:55pm — 40728651

Author

First Name:

Sunaina

Last Name:

Maira

Subtitle:

Indian American Youth Culture in New York City

Publish City:

Philadelphia, PA

Publish Company:

Temple University Press

ISSN/ISBN:

1566399270

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

Year:

2002

In this thorough academic study, Maira (Asian American studies, Univ. of Massachusetts) explores the cultural dynamics found among Desis, second-generation South Asian American youth.

Pages:

237

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Desis-House-American-Culture-History/dp/1566399270/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236627690&sr=8-1

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The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop

Posted on July 30, 2009 - 1:19pm — archive_staff

Author

First Name:

Halifu

Last Name:

Osumare

Publish City:

New York

Publish Company:

Palgrave Macmillan

ISSN/ISBN:

2147483647

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

Year:

2007

This book explores the two major reasons for hip-hop culture's proliferation throughout the world: 1) the global centrality of African American popular culture and the transnational pop culture industry of record companies and entertainment conglomerates; and 2) "connective marginalities" that are extant social inequalities forming the foundation for an "underground" network of

Pages:

219

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Africanist-Aesthetic-Global-Hip-Hop-Power/dp/1403976309/sr=1-1/qid=1169241343/ref=sr_1_1/104-1762809-3263104?ie=UTF8&s=books

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Brothers Gonna Work It Out

Posted on July 24, 2009 - 11:07am — archive_staff

Author

First Name:

Charise L.

Last Name:

Cheney

Subtitle:

Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism

Publish City:

New York

Publish Company:

New York University Press

ISSN/ISBN:

81471613

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

Year:

2005

Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism.

Pages:

222

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081471613X/103-2768487-1681422?v=glance&n=283155

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Mixtape Murder versus Album Battery

Posted on April 16, 2009 - 3:55pm — uchechiiweala

mixtape picture_3.jpg Hope the blog title caught your attention. No we're not talking about the latest beef between 50 cent and Officer Riicckkyy, but the difference in music quality between rap artists' mixtapes and their marketed albums.

Sujinho

Posted on March 30, 2009 - 3:36pm — allinthegame90

Author

First Name:

Jackson

Last Name:

Conti

Collaborators:

(Madlib & Mamao from Azymuth)

Publish Company:

Kindred Spirits

Medium:

Audio

Year:

2008

Madlib loves Brazilian music, and he collaborates with legendary Mamao, the drummer for the Brazilian electric funk jazz group, Azymuth. They do covers of some great '60s and '70s Brazilian music. This is at the Hiphop Archive on vinyl.

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Sujinho-Jackson-Conti/dp/B00171NYMM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1238441501&sr=8-2

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Embalo Jovem

Posted on March 30, 2009 - 2:24pm — allinthegame90

Author

First Name:

DJ Nuts

Subtitle:

O Samba Rock Manjado e Mixado

Publish Company:

Mochilla

Medium:

Audio

Year:

2008

DJ Nuts cuts hip-hop style over Brazilian music tunes for over an hour of smooth music.

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Sertão Madrugada

Posted on March 30, 2009 - 2:15pm — allinthegame90

Author

First Name:

B+

Subtitle:

Music from Brasil, Colombia, Sierra Leone, & Eritrea

Publish Company:

Mochilla

Medium:

Audio

Year:

2008

From Los Angeles-based photographer B+, this is a mix of funky, cool world music.

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Brazilian Hip-Hop

Posted on March 9, 2009 - 4:54pm — 40728651

Author

Last Name:

Brazilian Hip-Hop

Publish Company:

World Music Network

Language:

Portuguese

Medium:

Audio

Year:

2004

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Rough-Guide-Brazilian-Hip-Hop/dp/B0002LQUCO/ref=pd_sim_m_1

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