Prep

• • Alex Gale, The Oral History of “Wild Style”, Complex (2013). Note: I advise watching the movie to the end before reading this.
  • Video: Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1982)

In Class

1. 1. Attendance
   2. Q&A: How do we separate history from mythology?
   3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time]

• 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.