Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

What is Black Art?

Alice Correia

Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop

Arusa Qureshi

White Negroes When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

Lauren Michele Jackson

Sweat the Technique

Rakim

Dead Precedents

Roy Christopher

Jay-Z Made in America

Michael Eric Dyson

Citizen

Claudia Rankine

The Music in African American Fiction

Robert H. Cataliotti

Popular Music: The Key Concepts

New Zealand) Shuker Roy (University of Victoria Wellington

Original Gangstas

Ben Westhoff

Muslim Cool

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

Rap Year Book, The

Shea Serrano

Who We Be The Colorization of America

Jeff Chang

Popular Music in Theory

Keith Negus

Thug Life - Race, Gender and The Meaning of Hip Hop

Michael Alpert

Dirty South : OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop

Ben Westhoff

Sound

Caleb Kelly

Subcultural Theory Traditions and Concepts

J. Patrick Williams

Understand Rap

William Buckholz

Hip hop Amerika

Nelson George

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

Molefi K. Asante

The Pirate's Dilemma: How hackers, punk capitalists, graffiti millionaires and other youth movements are remixing our culture and changing our world

Matt Mason

Hip Hop Revolution - The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey Armstrong

When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events that Inspired and Influenced the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

Tayannah Lee McQuillar

Know what I mean?

Michael Eric Dyson

Home Girls Make Some Noise

Gwendolyn D. Pough, Elaine Richardson, Rachel Raimist, Aisha Durham

Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

Jeff Chang

American Popular Music: The Rock years

Larry Starr

Nuthin' but a "G" Thang The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

Eithne Quinn

Why White Kids Love Hip-hop Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Bakari Kitwana

Music, Space and Place

Bennett, Andy

Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

Ronin Ro

Music Grooves Essays and Dialogues

Charles Keil

The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

T.V. Reed

Rap and Hip Hop: Examining Pop Culture

Jared Green

Classic Material : The Hip-Hop Album Guide

Oliver. Wang

Rebel for the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur

Armond White

Global Noise Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA

Tony Mitchell

Bomb the Suburbs

William Upski Wimsatt

Between God and Gangsta Rap

Michael Eric Dyson