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Gosa, Travis. "Hip-Hop Politics, Activism, and the Future of Hip-Hop It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation by Asante, Molefi K. All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by McWhorter, John H. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk.." Journal of Popular Music Studies 21.2 (2009): 240-246. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article really deals with the politics of hip-hop. It deals with how rap is growing and how it's only going to get bigger as time goes on. This article is very important because there are a lot of poilitics involved in hip-hop. This article deals a lot with the culture of hip-hop as well. I thnk that this is a very good article.

Stewart, Jesse. "Real to Reel: Filmic Constructions of Hip Hop Cultures and Hip Hop Identities." Interdisciplinary Humanities 26.2 (2009): 49-67. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Stewart, Jesse. "Real to Reel: Filmic Constructions of Hip Hop Cultures and Hip Hop Identities." Interdisciplinary Humanities 26.2 (2009): 49-67. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article deals with a lot of issues that are very apparent in our culture. A lot of movies these days are centered around a lot of elements of hip-hop. There are many actors in Hollywood that got their start in hip-hop. This article explains how hip-hop has taken over music and film industry, which shows how popular it has become.

Thompson, Krista. "The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop." Art Bulletin 91.4 (2009): 481-505. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis article dives into the effect of hip hop and it culture. It shows the influence of hip hop on music videos, clothing, art, and everything else. It focuses the influence of hip hop on black youth.

"The Origins of Hip-Hop." Skipping Stones 14.5 (2002): 26. Primary Search. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Talks about how hip hop was born and how it got started. Also says how it progressed throughout time on how it is kept alive today. Talks about how it is also a dance type of music. It was created to put disco out and that no one liked disco. They thought it was for rich people that liked dancing.

"The Origins of Hip-Hop." Skipping Stones 14.5 (2002): 26. Primary Search. EBSCO. Web. 29 Nov. 2010. This article talks about the connections between Hip Hop and ancient cultural qualities of African peoples. It also talks about the rise of Hip Hop through the ranks of the musi world, starting out as a phase and growing into the juggernaut that it is today

Alridge, Derrick P., and James B. Stewart. "Introduction: Hip Hop in History: Past, Present, and Future." Journal of African American History 90.3 (2005): 190-195. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. Hip Hop has evolved into a great thing to this day. There are different branches of hip hop which is disc jockeying, break dancing, graffiti art, and rapping. In the early to mid-70s is when the ideas of hip hop came about. It is a way of speaking to the youth in a language that they can understand and relate to.

Collins, Carol Jones. "Hip-Hop Culture/Hip-Hop History/Hip-Hop Stars.." School Library Journal 56.6 (2010): 128-129. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Uniquely situated at the heart of African-American youth culture, hip-hop is about music, style and voice. In many ways hip-hop is also about political action. Any discussion of hip-hop culture and rap music lends itself to examinations of rap as a means of protest among inner-city African-American youth. But the resistive benefits of rap music are not limited to its African-American listeners as can be seen by its widespread popularity among youth of all different races, classes and nationalities. As the cultural and political voice of an entire generation of youth, hip-hop has become a means of political action for its artists and fans. In addition to its prominent resistive role, political action in the hip-hop community includes political deliberation and direct uses of hip-hop to increase political awareness and to organize collaborative action. (From the OhioLINK abstract.)

This article investigates the influences of race, hip hop, and sport on young adults at LSU. It shows how the hip hop culture weaves into race and sport. It shows the influence of race in hip hop and the effect of both on sports.

Joanna Demers. Sampling the 1970s in Hip-Hop. Popular Music, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), pp. 41-56. JSTOR. Web. 16 Nov. 2010 This article examines the beginning of Hip Hop. It shows where its influences came from and how they translated into what hip hop is today. It shows the founding fathers and the hoops they had to jump through in order to gain respect in the music industry.

Alridge, Derrick P., and James B. Stewart. "Introduction: Hip Hop in History: Past, Present, and Future." The Journal of African American History 90.3 (2005): 190-95. JSTOR. Web. 27 Oct. 2010. This article is about the many books, articles, and journals on the history of Hip Hop. Hip Hop is not solely a style and musical fad, but a cultural, political, and intellectual phenomenon. It has truly evolved since its beginning in the boroughs of New York City in the 1970s. Not many people are knowledgeable about the founders of Hip Hop such as Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc. The article suggests that in order to appreciate the Hip Hop of today, we need to learn about its past and from there we can begin to evolve its future.

Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. New York: Basic Civitas, 2002. Print. This book talks about how rap has negatively influenced young black kids. I think that this book is very important because this is a bit of a problem in the black community and I think that it needs to be addressed. Although hip-hop has positive factors, it has a lot of negative factors that deal with not only blacks, but all races. This book discusses a lot of important issues, and I think it provides a lot of good information.

This is not a citable scholarly source, but an article listing other sources of information about hip-hop, making it a good find for those researching the topic. The OhioLINK abstract: This bibliographical essay describes a wide array of resources relating to hip-hop culture and rap music, including definitions and overviews, bibliographies, discographies, encyclopedias, historical and biographical information, articles and databases, sound and video recordings, lyrics, information about rap songs, hip-hop terminology and slang, photographs, Web sites, and research collections. The final section is devoted to collecting hip-hop and rap materials for libraries. While the essay is primarily intended to serve as a guide for music librarians who provide reference service and library instruction, and to those with collection development responsibilities, it may also prove useful to educators, students, and those beginning to conduct research on hip-hop or rap.

lridge, Derrick P. "From Civil Rights to Hip Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas." Journal of African American History 90.3 (2005): 226-252. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Talks about how civil rights have had an effect on hip hop. It now is associated with songs and how the transitions have changed it. From when the civil rights movement started to being involved in hip hop with the people in the songs, has had a deep impact on the hip hop movement. It has changed the view of hip hop now.

Darby, Derrick, and Tommie Shelby. Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason. Chicago: Open Court, 2005. Print. This book uses fun and easy to read essays that ask many questions, linking the cultural issues in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. This book proves that rhyme and reason can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries. This book proves that hip-hop is more than cuss words and loud beats, but that it also tells stories that can end up being beneficial.

Hip-hop style, a controversial dress form associated with rap music culture in the 1990s, is analyzed and interpreted based on premises associated with structural approaches to semiotics. The semiotic system is isolated in time, and three coding operations are considered in terms of the relationships they establish between elements of the system and potential meanings ascribed to these: paradigmatic alignment (bipolar opposition), denotation and connotation (literal and extended descriptions), and figurative devices (implied figures of speech). Results reveal the structure of the system in terms of a dialectic between signs in the hip-hop system and signs in the system of conventional dress. Components of the rule system of conventional dress are exposed, and figurative language supporting the hip-hop system is described. The hip-hop system is construed as an example of a larger category of appearance-related systems designated extraordinary dress, poised in opposition to ordinary appearance forms. Implications include potential contributions to theory development. (From the OhioLINK abstract.)

WOLDU, GAIL HILSON. "The Kaleidoscope of Writing on Hip-Hop Culture." Notes 67.1 (2010): 9-38. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Hip hop was discovered in late 1970's and early 1980's. It was referred to as "party" music at the time. Had rhyming words and bass with a rhythm. Moved into the early 1990s with Tupac, Biggie Smalls, and Snoop Dogg.

WOLDU, GAIL HILSON. "THE KALEIDOSCOPE OF WRITING ON HIP-HOP CULTURE." Notes 67.1 (2010): 9-38. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Wisner, Heather. "Crash Course: Hip Hop." Dance Magazine 81.10 (2007): 82-85. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 6 Dec. 2010. This article discusses the finer points of one of the four elements of hip hop, breakdancing. It talks about how the art is being watered down and how to truely commit to dancing. It tells about all of the methods inside of dancing, such as popping, locking, etc.

Garrity, Brian, and Mariel Concepcion. "A Hip-Hop History Lesson." Billboard 119.18 (2007): 8. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.