Prep

• Samy Alim, ‘“Bring It to the Cypher”: Hip-Hop Nation Language’, in Forman and Neal (2012)
• Recommended: Adam Bradley, ‘The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry’, New York Times (4 March 2021)
  • Audio:

    Adam Bradley, ‘American Poets on the Hip-Hop Songs That Most Inspire Them’, New York Times (4 March 2021). To complement T’s recent feature on how the barrier between rap and poetry is becoming increasingly porous thanks to a new generation of practitioners in both art forms, we asked a number of poets mentioned in the piece about the hip-hop songs they return to again and again.

In Class

1. Attendance
2. Review: Story Maps Research Questions
3. Review: Semester Goals HW
4. Overview: Annotated Bibliography Assignment
5. Q&A: TBA
6. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Kembrew McLeod, ‘Authenticity Within Hip-Hop and Other Cultures Threatened With Assimilation’, in Forman and Neal (2012)