Prep

• 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.

In Class

1. Attendance
2. Review: Story Maps
3. Q&A: Did the ‘founding fathers’ really create something out of nothing?
4. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Classic Material’, Pitchfork (19 November 2012)
• Audio: Nas, Illmatic (1993)
• Video: Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid, m.A.A.d. Classic (21 October 2017). This week’s piece delves into the overrated concept that time is a factor when judging a classic. For a dissenting view on hip-hop classicism…