Music Magazine Archive: Hip Hop & Rap

The 1980s saw the rise of a musical genre that took its cues from funk, jazz, soul, reggae, and disco to coalesce into a modern movement driven from the street. Hip Hop and Rap magazines show and tell of urban music culture inspired by rappers such as Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Salt-N-Pepa, Ice T, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, MC Hammer, De La Soul, Arrested Development, Wu Tang Clan, NAS, Outkast, and more.

NA Publishing is assembling a collection of digital and print magazines that capture the social consciousness of this music and its distinct cultures: Music Magazine Archive: Hip Hop & Rap.

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The third collection in NA Publishing’s Music Magazine Archive, MMA: Hip Hop & Rap extends beyond Rock and Folk to include urban voices addressing issues of race, class, gender, and more.

Every page, cover, and advertisement
Article level indexing
High resolution & full color
OCR’d and fully searchable text
All material in its original context
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Cross-searchable with the MMA: Rock and MMA: Folk collection

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These magazines chart and review Hip Hop and Rap artists, musicians, DJs, music venues, block parties, and performance art such as break-dancing, scratching, aned turntablism. Beyond the music are the broader implications of an urban movement of oppositional culture challenging racism and stereotypes, one that manifests in bold lyrics, graffiti, protest, and attitude.

Alongside this Hip Hop & Rap ethos lives a strong material culture, illustrated by the commercialization of mainstream artists, male and female alike, who are magnified in entertainment, celebrity fashion, men’s, custom car, and style magazines.

MMA: Hip Hop & Rap will include 10-15 titles upon completion.
The following titles are confirmed to date:

Chicago Rocks
CLOUT Graffiti Magazine
Da Buzz! Magazine
Da Insider Magazine
DJ Times
Elemental
The Flavor
Headz
The Hype Magazine
Murder Dog
Ozone
Rap Fanatic
Straight from the Lip
S.O.U.LMAG
Urban Link
Vinyl Exchange
Wax Poetics

Also available in the Music Magazine Archive series:

Music Magazine Archive: Rock
Music Magazine Archive: Folk

Pricing

Library Types*	One-Time Purchase
Two-Year & Publics (<25K)	$1,550
Bachelors & Publics (25-100 K)	$2,560
Masters & Publics (100-500 K)	$3,200
Other PhD & Publics (500 K+)	$4,780
ARL	$6,350

*Library Types based on Carnegie Classifications.

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Open Access Commitment: 10% of Music Magazine Archive profit will fund Music Zines, an open access project

Wellesley College

AMST 315 - Beats, Rhymes, and Life: Hip-Hop Studies

This course offers an intensive exploration of hip-hop studies where students learn about the history of hip-hop as a social movement and art form composed of the following four elements: DJing, MCing, break dancing, and graffiti art. Once a common understanding of hip-hop's genesis and history is established, attention is turned to how hip-hop is studied in the academy. The seminar features a wide range of interdisciplinary studies of hip-hop music and culture in order to demonstrate the different methodological and theoretical frames used in hip-hop scholarship. We focus on hip-hop-related debates and discussions in popular culture, such as racial authenticity, global consumption of hip-hop, sampling and musical technologies, and sexism and gender scripts within hip-hop culture.

The University of Arizona

AFAS 335 - Rap, Culture, and God

Study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latino/a communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions.

North Carolina Central University

HIST 2320 - History of Hip Hop

Hip Hop: In Deep Concentration studies the most heralded artists, their lives, and their classic works. Throughout the course students will become more familiar on the impact these artists had on a growing culture. Students will be required to LISTEN and LIVE with the “classics”, by understanding how each classic affected youth culture and why it is deemed a “classic”. Students will also partake in making a “classic” song resembling a selected time period.

Duke University

MUSIC 335 - The History of Hip-Hop

What began as a localized activity designed to provide a safe haven for Black and Latino youth in New York City, has become a global brand that has had a documented impact on the cultural, political and economic realities of youth throughout the globe. This course will examine the organic social and cultural foundations of Hip-Hop, as well as the key aesthetic innovators/innovations, and the debates that have arisen over Hip-hop's increased influence.

The University of Arizona

AFAS 371 - Hip Hop Cinema

Course provides a strong foundation in the history and development of hip-hop cinema. Major films, directors, and movements are studied in their historical, social, and cultural context, with a particular focus on the aesthetics of visual language and cinematic techniques.

Rice University

RELI 311 - Religion and Hip-Hop

Hip Hop culture has changed how life is discussed and conducted. However, one of the under-explored dimensions of Hip Hop culture involves its religious sensibilities. Using lectures, discussions, films, and video presentations, this course explores Hip Hop culture's religious dimensions through its musical language-rap music.

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