LibGuides: Visual Culture and Hip Hop/VCDM408 with Professor Tewodross Melchishua Williams: Course Reserves

These titles can be found at the Circulation Desk on Course Reserve.

The Hip Hop Generation : young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture by Bakari Kitwana
Call Number: E185.86 .K58 2002
ISBN: 0465029787
Publication Date: 2002-04-17
The new Black youth culture : the emergence of the hip-hop generation -- America’s outcasts : the employment crisis -- Race war : policing, incarceration, and the containment of Black youth -- Where did our love go? : the new war of the sexes -- Young, don’t give a fuck, and Black : Black gangster films -- Activism and the hip-hop generation : redefining social responsibility -- The politics of the hip-hop generation : identifying a political agenda -- The challenge of rap music : from cultural movement to political power.
Sound Clash : Jamaican dancehall culture at large by Carolyn Cooper; Cooper Carolyn
Call Number: F1874 .C663 2004
ISBN: 1403964254
Publication Date: 2004-09-15
Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, offers a sympathetic account of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs. She demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise,' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes that characterise Jamaican society. Cooper also analyses the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.
Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang; D. J. Kool Herc (Introduction by)
Call Number: ML3486.J3 S76
ISBN: 0312425791
Publication Date: 2005-12-27
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop has been a generation-defining global movement. In a post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these seismic changes, and became a job-making engine and the Esperanto of youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial generation's worldview, and forever transformed politics and culture. But the epic story of how that happened has never been fully told . . . until now.
Droppin' Science by William E. Perkins (Editor)
Call Number: ML3531 .D77 1996
ISBN: 1566393612
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
A historical guide to the evolution of rap and hip hop music from its beginnings to the evolution of its many forms and frequent controversies including violence and misogyny. Cultural associations covering dance and fashion are also discussed in this collection.
Solid Foundation by David Katz
Call Number: ML3532 .K38 2003
ISBN: 1582341435
Publication Date: 2003-04-17
olid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae is an original, in-depth look at one of the most influential music genres. Through exclusive interview material and previously unpublished photographs, David Katz brings to life over one hundred of reggae's most important artists. From the pre-ska years of the late 1950s to the dawning of the digital age in the mid-1980s, Solid Foundation charts the evolution of ska, rock steady, traditional and untraditional reggae styles, and the sub-genres of dub, deejay, and dancehall. The book is largely drawn from conversations Katz conducted with the architects of Jamaica's popular music, and with perceptive and detailed commentary, he celebrates the creativity and individuality that have made reggae music one of the most popular contemporary styles throughout the world.
This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music by Lloyd Bradley
Call Number: ML3532.B73 2001
ISBN: 0802138284
Publication Date: 2001-09-24
From Prince Buster to Burning Spear, Lee "Scratch" Perry to Yellowman, Bob Marley to Shabba Ranks, reggae music is one of the most dynamic and powerful musical forms of the twentieth century. And, as Lloyd Bradley shows in his deft, definitive, and always entertaining book, it is and always has been the people's music. Born in the sound systems of the Kingston slums, reggae was the first music poor Jamaicans could call their own, and as it spread throughout the world, it always remained fluid, challenging, and distinctly Jamaican. Based on six years of research -- original interviews with most of reggae's key producers, musicians, and international players -- and a lifelong enthusiasm for one of the most remarkable of the world's musics, this book is the definitive history of reggae.
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States by Samuel A. Floyd
Call Number: ML3556 .F65 1995
ISBN: 0195109759
Publication Date: 1996-10-31
African American music deserves but seldom gets as much attention from academics as from music critics. Floyd takes the rare scholarly approach to it and sets a standard for subsequent studies. The range of genres he discusses is comprehensive (it includes slaves' ring shouts, turn-of-the-century cotillion dances, jazz, R & B, etc.), and the connections he makes are particularly perceptive. Drawing on the works of prominent cultural theorists, such as Henry Louis Gates, Floyd traces the key elements in the music's panorama to an aesthetic that is still clearly linked to African myths and rituals (one example he cites is call-and-response technique, which is pervasive throughout many stylistic categories). A midwesterner, Floyd attends to the historically important but frequently overlooked Chicago Renaissance of black cultural activity and to the influential composers from that city as well as to the more familiar Harlem efflorescence. Complementing the discourse are plenty of musical examples. Academics, critics, scholars, and fans alike stand to gain much from carefully reading this impressive work. Aaron Cohen
Microphone Fiends by Andrew Ross (Editor); Tricia Rose (Editor)
Call Number: ML3795 .M5 1994
ISBN: 0415909074
Publication Date: 1994-04-22
Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco, metal and rap music, and case histories of specific movements like the Riot Grrls, funk clubbing in Rio de Janeiro, and the British rave scene.
Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art by Terry Barrett
Call Number: N6350.B27 2008
ISBN: 0195167414
Publication Date: 2007-03-23
Why Is That Art? addresses common questions that viewers raise about contemporary art: Why is that art? Why is it in an art museum? Who says it's art? If I did this, would it be art? Why is it good? Covering a broad, diverse, and engaging sampling of works--abstract and representational painting, monumental sculpture, performance art, video installations, films, and photographs--author Terry Barrett responds to these questions using three sources: the artists who created the works, philosophers of art, and art critics. Introducing students to a variety of established theories of art, he presents the traditional sets of criteria of Realism, Expressionism, and Formalism, which are in turn updated by recent sources of Poststructuralism.

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