Overview

A collection of essays on archiving the history of hip-hop, featuring a range of official, unofficial, DIY, and community archives. Despite the vast popularity and cultural influence of hip-hop, efforts to archive its history are still in fairly early stages. This book focuses on the cultural and political aspects of those undertakings. It addresses practical aspects, including methods of collection, curation, preservation, and digitization, and critically analyzes institutional power, community engagement, urban economics, public access, and the ideological implications of hip-hop culture’s enduring tensions with dominant social values. A wide swath of hip-hop culture is covered by the contributors, including dance, graffiti, clothing, and battle rap.  

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Author:   Mark V. Campbell (University of Toronto Scarborough) ,  Murray Forman (Northeastern University, USA) ,  Mark V Campbell ,  Murray Forman
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781789388428

ISBN 10:   1789388422
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   30 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: “An Archival State of Mind” xiii Mark V. Campbell   SECTION 1: DOING THE KNOWLEDGE 1 1. The Hip Hop Archive and the High School Student: Symbiotic Knowledge Disruption 3 Kulsoom Anwer Shaikh 2. Hip Hop as a Practical and Methodological Issue: Libraries in Russia 19 Sergey Ivanov 3. Hip Hop Dance and the Circulation of Breaking Footage 41 Mary Fogarty and Jason “J-Sun” Noer 4. The Black History 101 Mobile Museum and the Michigan Hip-Hop Archive 57 Khalid El-Hakim   SECTION 2: CHALLENGING ARCHIVAL FORMS 77 5. As We Walk through the Archived Files of All Styles: Archival Practices and Cultural Memory on Battle Rap Forums 79 Sean Robertson-Palmer 6. The Responsibilities and Challenges of Community-Engaged Archives: Lessons from Building the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive 96 Pacey Foster 7. The Ballad of “Grandmaster PH”: Contesting Narratives and Lost Archives in Philippine Hip-Hop 114 James Gabrillo 8. Painting, Image, and Cultural Heritage: The Graffiti Mural Fascinate as Visual Ecology 129 Jacob Kimvall 9. Oral History and the Accidental Archive 154 Giuseppe “u.net” Pipitone   SECTION 3: BEYOND THE NATION 167 10. Traces of Solidarity and Breakdown: Domestic Collection in Post-Yugoslav Hip Hop Fanzines and Mixtapes 169 Owen Kohl and Dragana Cvetanović 11. Living Archives: Producing Knowledge about Hip-Hop Culture in East Germany 196 Leonard Schmieding 12. Rap Cubano in the Archive: The Immaterial Paradox 221 Pablo D. Herrera Veitia   SECTION 4: INSTITUTIONAL ALIGNMENTS: INTERVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS 249 13. Nwaka Onwusa (Vice President and Chief Curator, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) 251 14. Ben Ortiz (Assistant Curator, Cornell Hip Hop Collection) 268 15. Martha Diaz (Chief Curator/Archivist, Hip Hop Education Center and Associate Curator/Archivist, Universal Hip Hop Museum) 281   Afterword 297 Murray Forman Notes on Contributors 309 Index 317

Reviews

“The variety of voices in Hip-Hop Archives is impressive. The mix of international contexts, especially incorporating the voices of scenes that developed under oppressive regimes, are eye-opening for the central metaphor of knowledge production. Campbell and Forman truly get at the egalitarian and universal form of hip-hop, while acknowledging both African American roots and the varying reasons some founders are left out, closing with beautiful, insightful, and passionate interviews.” -- Courtney E. Chartier, Columbia University Libraries “This innovative and accessible collection explores hip-hop practices that attest to its longevity, impact, and value. Of course, even with the global dissemination, adoption, and adaptation of hip-hop, this is also about the politics, community, and culture of Black people as the fount of this vital practice and knowledge, underlining the necessity of recording and archiving this history. Many contributors speak from empirical experience and their role in establishing the culture and its preservation attests to book’s authority and authenticity.” -- Paul Long, Monash University

Author Information

Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. He is co-founder of the Bigger than Hip Hop radio show (1997-2015) and founder at Northside Hip Hop Archive. Mark is an Assistant Professor of Music and Culture at the University of Toronto Scarborough in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media. Murray Forman is among the first generation of hip-hop studies scholars, his academic research having directly engaged various facets of hip-hop culture since the early 1990s. His books include The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (2002), and (with co-editor Mark Anthony Neal) That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (1st edition 2004; 2nd edition, 2012) as well as One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television (2012). An inaugural Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at the Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, Harvard University (2014-2015), he is Professor of Media & Screen Studies at Northeastern University.

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