Toop, David, The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop, London: South End Press, 1984
Watkins, S. Craig, Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998
This selection of readings is an expansion of one provided by Ethan de Jonge-Kalmar. If you are looking for literature for a paper on hip hop, note that this list is only a sample of what is available "out there." It has been .
Abrams, Nathan D., "Antonio's B-Boys: Rap, Rappers, and Gramsci's Intellectuals," Popular Music and Society, 19 (4), 1995: 1-20
Arts, Angela, "Organizing the Hip Hop Generation," The Nation, 269 (4), 1999: 11-20
Bartlett, Andrew, "Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip Hop Sample: Contexts and African American Musical Aesthetics," African American Review, 28 (4), 1994: 639-652
Blair, M. Elizabeth, "Commercialization of the Rap Music Youth Subculture," Journal of Popular Culture, 27 (3), 1993: 21-33
Cross, Brian, "Diamond in the Back, Sunroof Top: Some interviews with West Coast Rappers," Grand St., 46, 1999: 89-117
Dimitriadis, Greg, "Hip Hop: From Live Performance to Mediated Narrative," Popular Music, 15 (2), 1996: 179-193
Elflein, Dietmar, "From Krauts with Attitudes to Turks with Attitudes: Some Aspects of Hip Hop History in Germany," Popular Music, 17 (3), 1998: 255-265
Farley, Christopher John, "Hip Hop Nation," Time Magazine, 153 (5), 1999: 44-56
Forman, Murray, "'Represent': Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music," Popular Music, 19 (1), 2000: 65-90
Gladney, Marvin J., "The Black Arts Movement and Hip Hop," African American Review, 29 (2), 1995: 291-301
Irving, Katrina, "'I Want Your Hands on Me': Building Equivalences Through Rap Music," Popular Music, 12 (2), 1993: 105-122
Judy, R.A.T., "On the Question of Nigga Authenticity," Boundary 2, 21 (3), 1994: 211-230
Lusane, Clarence, "Rhapsodic Aspirations: Rap, Race and Power Politics," The Black Scholar, 23 (2), 1993: 37-51
McLeod, Kembrew, "Authenticity Within Hip Hop and Other Cultures Threatened with Assimilation," Journal of Communication, 4 (4), 1999:1-18
Mitchell, Tony, "Questions of Style: Notes on Italian Hip Hop," Popular Music, 14 (3), 1995: 333-348
Prévos, André J.M., "Hip Hop, Rap, and Repression in France and the United States," Popular Music and Society, 11 (3), 1987: 57-74
Quinn, Eithne, "`Who's The Mack?': The Performativity and Politics of the Pimp Figure in Gangsta Rap," Journal of American Studies, 34 (1), 2000: 115-136
Salaam, Mtume ya, "The Aesthetics of Rap," African American Review, 29 (2), 1995: 303-315
Spiegler, Marc, "Marketing Street Culture: Bringing Hip Hop Style to the Mainstream," American Demographics, 18 (11), 1996: 28-34
Teachout, Terry, "Rap and Racism," Commentary, 89 (3), 1990: 60-62
Ullestad, Neal, "American Indian Rap and Reggae: Dancing `To the Beat of a Different Drummer'", Popular Music and Society, 23 (2), 1999: 63-90
Cross, Brian, It's Not About a Salary, New York: Verso, 1993
Gates, Henry L., Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
Lhamon, W.T., Jr., Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998
Mailer, Norman, The White Negro, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1957
Neal, Mark Anthony, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture, New York: Routledge, 1999
Perkins, William Eric, ed., Droppin’ Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1996
Potter, Russell A., Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism, Albany: SUNY Press, 1995
Rose, Tricia, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1994
Toop, David, The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop, London: South End Press, 1984
Watkins, S. Craig, Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998
