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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
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