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==The BenFlowz Fall 2005 Independent Study Cultural Hip-Hop Media Apocalypse Reader / Reading List ==
Contents |
Textual:
- Cultural Identity and Diaspora, Stuart Hall
- The Power of Identity Vol II: The Information age: Economy, Society, and Culture, Manuel Castells
- Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop, Guthrie P. Ramsey, JR.
- Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance, editor Samuel A. Floyd, JR.
- The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Spance and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop, Murray Forman.
- Dangerous Crossroads (Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place), George Lipsitz
- "After the Love Has Gone" Bio-politics and etho-poetics in the black public sphere, Paul Gilroy
- Bomb The Suburbs, William Upski Wimsatt
- No More Prisons, William Upski Wimsatt
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
- Politics (article in Key Terms…?), Robin Ballinger
- Life and Def (Sex, Drugs, Money, and God), Russell Simmons with Nelson George
- The Auditory Culture Reader, editors Michael Bull and Les Back:
- Songtime (Sound Culture, Rhythm, and Sociality), Paul Filmer
- The Sounic Composition of the City, Jean-Paul Thibaud
- Diasporic Sounds (Dis/Located Sounds), Vic Seidler
- The Sounds of Alternity, Sanjay Sharma
- Calypso Kings, Stuart Hall
- Sounding Off! (Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution), edited by Ron Sakolsky & Fred Wei-Han Ho:
- The Cultural Studies Reader:
- Space, Power, and Knowledge, Michel Foucault
- International Image Markets, Armand Mattelart, Xavier Delcourt, and Michele Mattelart
- The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception Theodor Adorno and Max Horkenheimer
- The new cultural politics of difference, Cornel West
- From culture to hegemony, Dick Hebdige
- The popularity of pornography, Andrew Ross
- Car Cultures, from a guy last named Miller
- Negotiations of Car Use in Everyday Life, Simon Maxwell
- Driving While Black. Paul Gilroy
- The Trouble with Music, Matt Callahan
- The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution, David Kusek & Gerd Leonhard.
- Black Noise, Tricia Rose
- Cyborg Manifesto, Dona Haraway link
- The Rap on Gangsta Rap, Bakari Kitwana
- The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture, Bakari Kitwana
- Who Shot Ya?, Ernie Paniccioli & Kevin Powell
- Black Power, White Blood: the Life and Times of Johnny Spain, Lori Andrews
- Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, Oliver Wang.
- Gunshots in my Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
- All you need to Know About the Music Business, Donald S. Passman
- The Unreality Industry, Iam I. Mitroff and Warren Bennis
- Lyrical Swords, Adisa Banjoko
- Angry Black White Boy, Adam Mansbach
Visual
- Representation and the Media, lecture by Stuart Hall (film)
- Black Is Black Ain’, Marlon Riggs (film)
- Advertising and the End of the World, featuring Sut Jhally (film)
- Dreamworlds II: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video, Sut Jhally (film)
- Can I Get an AMEN, Nate Harrison link
Auditory:
- Socio-genetic Experiment, Michael Franti
Personal experience/observations: ?
- DJ Divine vs. Sonny Bono (BenFlowz Mediates) video footage
- MR. David Maduli is DJ Dmadness INTERVIEW

