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DJ Shadow's Endtroducing
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 10.95What resonated about Endtroducing when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is not only a master sampler and turntablist supreme, he is also a serious archeologist... more...
Afeni Shakur
Atria Books 2010; Not AvailableOne of the most visible figures in both the hip-hop and civil rights movements charts her moral and spiritual development in a stirring and poignant memoir spanning five decades. As a child growing up in North Carolina, Alice Faye Williams knew that the most important thing her impoverished family lacked was land; as she puts it, "The land, to live... more...
Hip Hop World
Groundwood Books 2011; US$ 9.95In Hip Hop World, Dalton Higgins comprehensively examines the hip hop scene as it exists throughout the world. The book reveals the form's musical inspirations from Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, African American sex satirists, comedians, civil rights-fuelled funk musicians, spoken word luminaries, and dub and Nuyorican poetry. Author Higgins... more...
The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture
Scarecrow Press 2011; US$ 27.99In this collection of provocative essays, leading thinkers, preachers, and scholars from around the country challenge both the Black church and the hip-hop generation to realize their shared responsibilities to one another and to the greater society. more...
Total Chaos
Basic Books 2008; US$ 18.95The author of the award-winning Can?t Stop, Won?t Stop assembles the most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop to assess the future of the most important cultural movement of our time more...
Book of Rhymes
Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.95One of hip-hop studies? brightest young scholars celebrates the lyrics of hip hop as the most vivid, most revolutionary form of American poetry today more...
Third Coast
Da Capo Press 2007; US$ 16.95The first in-depth look at a regional phenomenon that has exploded into a worldwide sensation: Dirty South Hip Hop more...
Wake Up
Abingdon Press 2011; US$ 27.00First an expression of black urban youth, Hip Hop music continues to expand as a cultural expression of youth and, now, young adults more generally. As a cultural phenomenon, it has even become integral to the worship experience of a growing number of churches who are reaching out to these groups. This includes not just African American... more...
Confessions of a Video Vixen
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailablePart tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry?from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life?to the excessive use of drugs, sex... more...
Somebody Scream!
Faber & Faber 2009; US$ 21.99For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." With the onset of the Reagan years, we begin to... more...









