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The Definitive List of Hip-Hop Books
(14 Books)
1
Trying to Get Over: African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986
by
Keith Corson
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
"Connects the end of the blaxploitation film era to the emergence of hip hop in film era. Including segments on Krush Groove, Beat Street, Def Poetry Jam and others."
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
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Greg Tate
4.31 avg rating — 75 ratings
"It's Greg Tate"
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6 'N The Morning: West Coast Hip-Hop Music 1987-1992 & the Transformation of Mainstream Culture
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Daudi Abe
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
by
Greg Tate
3.94 avg rating — 168 ratings
"A necessary chapter on Eminem and his appropriation of blackness making him the new white negro"
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Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
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Ben Westhoff
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4.35 avg rating — 1,985 ratings
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The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip-hop and the Globalisation of Black Popular Culture
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Dipannita Basu
3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
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Kevin Coval
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4.28 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Tupac Shakur : Holler If You Hear Me
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Michael Eric Dyson
4.05 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
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Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
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Baruti N. Kopano
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Check the Technique Volume 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
by
Brian Coleman
4.46 avg rating — 94 ratings
"This is the "sequel" to the its predecessor currently on the list"
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
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Greg Tate
4.31 avg rating — 196 ratings
"This predecessor to the sequel also adding for your list"
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Hip Hop as Performance and Ritual
by
William E. Smith
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5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
"Connects the hip hop MC (emcee) to West African Griots as a necessary voices of social consciousness."
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Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
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Eithne Quinn
3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Rap Music and Street Consciousness
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Cheryl L. Keyes
3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
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