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.
- Attendance
- Q&A: TBA
- Reading Notes 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)