Prep

• Mychal Denzel Smith, ‘Confessions of a Conscious Rap Fan’, Pitchfork (28 June 2022)

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

Prep

• Murray Forman, ‘Represent: Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music’, in Forman and Neal (2012)

No one contacted me yesterday evening wondering about access to this article, so I assume no one’s read it yet. It’s pretty dense. But I don’t want to fatigue anybody after the last couple of dense articles we’ve looked at: you can lightly skim this one, make note of any parts you’d like to talk about in depth, and we’ll deal with those in class. We’ll try to devote most of our time to the proposal outlines.

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

Prep

• Paul Gilroy, Gilroy_Its_a_Family_Affair, in Neal and Forman (2012)

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

Prep

• Matt Miller, ‘Rap’s Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture’, in Forman and Neal (2012)

Sorry for the change of plans, but now that we’ve talked a little bit about what was going on in Houston at that time, let’s take a look at some of the other regional scenes then rising in the south, as well as the way they all ended up being lumped together as the ‘Dirty South’.

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

Prep

• Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Gray Matters’, Pitchfork (4 March 2013). On the legacy of Houston’s DJ Screw– possibly the most influential hip-hop DJ of this century– and how his impact goes way beyond simply slowing things down

• Audio: ‘Big Floyd and the Rise of Houston Chopped N Screwed Music’, Switched on Pop (9 June 2020)

• Audio: ‘DANCING_ ECSTATIC USA, HOUSTON 1971-2000, DJ SCREW SPECIAL’ (DJ Purple Image, 31 March 2015)

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

Prep

• Matt Miller, ‘Rap’s Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture’, in Forman and Neal (2012)

Sorry for the change of plans, but now that we’ve talked a little bit about what was going on in Houston at that time, let’s take a look at some of the other regional scenes then rising in the south, as well as the way they all ended up being lumped together as the ‘Dirty South’.

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

Prep

• Kembrew McLeod, McLeod, 'Authenticity Within Hip-Hop', in Forman and Neal (2012)

There is no new reading today: we didn’t really dig into McLeod’s article yesterday, so we’ll cover that today. I’ve posted a non-password-protected PDF of it on Slack in the #general channel.

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Gray Matters’, Pitchfork (4 March 2013). On the legacy of Houston’s DJ Screw– possibly the most influential hip-hop DJ of this century– and how his impact goes way beyond simply slowing things down.
• Audio: ‘DANCING_ ECSTATIC USA, HOUSTON 1971-2000, DJ SCREW SPECIAL’ (DJ Purple Image, 31 March 2015)

Prep

• Kembrew McLeod, McLeod, 'Authenticity Within Hip-Hop', in Forman and Neal (2012)

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Paul Gilroy, Gilroy_Its_a_Family_Affair, in Neal and Forman (2012)

Prep

• Murray S. Davis, ‘That’s Interesting! Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1971). Note: Focus on Part II, ‘The Index of the Interesting’. 

Zoom Session

1. NO CLASS (Juneteenth)

For Next Time

• H. Samy Alim, ‘“Bring It to the Cypher”: Hip-Hop Nation Language’, in Forman and Neal (2012)

Prep

• H. Samy Alim, ‘“Bring It to the Cypher”: Hip-Hop Nation Language’, in Forman and Neal (2012)

Zoom Session

1. Attendance
2. Q&A: TBA
3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Kembrew McLeod, McLeod, 'Authenticity Within Hip-Hop', in Forman and Neal (2012)