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Mitchell, Tony. Global Noise: Rap and Hip-hop outside the USA. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2001. Print.T his book describes how rap has grown in other countries other than the U.S. Most people don't think of rap as being something that is international, but it has grown to almost all of Europe and is even getting started in Asia. Rap is becoming the most popular type of music in the whole world and reading this book confirms that. Rap is huge and it's only going to get bigger as time moves on because soon the generation that listens to rap will become older and take up more of the population.

Samuels, David. "The Rap On Rap." New Republic 205.20 (1991): 24-29. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Talks about how rap was started and what it was like. It talks about the transition and who was involved. It talks about the first rap ever and details about it. Also, it adds information on where it was started with the people in it.

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.

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.)

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.

Deahl, Rachel. "Hip-Hop Loses Bad Rap With Publishers." Publishers Weekly 252.50 (2005): 10-11. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Talks about how rappers have grown, but now there are so many of them. Around the era of Tupac, rap and hip hop was still growing. Now its becoming a cluster and there are a lot of rappers looking for deals to publish.This is a big part in the growth of hip-hop.

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.

Sullivan, Felicia C. "Speak History. (cover story)." Read 55.13 (2006): 18. Middle Search Plus. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Talks about how the history of hip hop began. Also, it talks about the change of hip hop and how it was. The people in hip hop and rap are a huge part of the change in hip hop. It was started in Bronx, New York and it just grew from there.

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.

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.

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.)

Naison, Mark. "Hip Hop and Oral History: Turning Students into "Griots for a New Age." OAH Magazine of History 22.3 (2008): 46-48. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This talks about how young people can relate to songs. These songs inspire them when they hear them and give them a sense of motivation. Many kids go through poverty and same with the rappers. Sometimes it even inspires these young kids to be like a rapper or a DJ one day.

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.