Prep
- Nelson George, ‘Hip-Hop’s Founding Fathers Speak the Truth’, in Forman and Neal (2012); also available in Forman and Neal (2004)
- Video: Founding Fathers: The Untold Story of Hip-Hop (Ron Lawrence and Hassan Pore, 2009). Watch this before class; we’ll review a few scenes during class as they become relevant to our discussion.
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: Did hip-hop really begin in the Bronx?
- Review: Story Maps Group Project
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Jennifer Lynn Stoever, ‘Crate Digging Begins at Home: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s Bronx’, in Justin D. Burton and Jason Lee Oakes, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Music (2018)
- Video: Afrika Bambaataa | Crate Diggers | Fuse (13 August 2014)
- Audio: Your ‘Home Soundscape’, The Brian Lehrer Show (5 October 2022). Kathryn Jezer-Morton, writer of The Cut’s Brooding newsletter, joins to discuss her latest newsletter about music in the home and how it can be used to expand a sense of belonging, and takes listener calls on what they play in their homes.
