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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.

Don’t fight the power of search.

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
  • Saved user searches
  • Cross-searchable with the MMA: Rock and MMA: Folk collection

Available 2017

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Research Interest

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 inlude 10-15 titles upon completion.
The following titles are confirmed to date:

  • Da Buzz! Magazine
  • DJ Times
  • The Flavor
  • The Hype Magazine
  • Ozone
  • Wax Poetics

 

 

 

Also available in the Music Magazine Archive series:

   Music Magazine Archive: Rock
   Music Magazine Archive: Folk

Pricing
Library Types* One-Time Purchase Annual Access Fee Product & One-Time Access Fee
Two-Year & Publics (<25K) $1,200 $70 $1,550
Bachelors & Publics (25-100 K) $1,960 $120 $2,560
Masters & Publics (100-500 K) $2,450 $150 $3,200
Other PhD & Publics (500 K+) $3,680 $220 $4,780
ARL $4,900 $290 $6,350
*Library Types based on Carnegie Classifications.

Contact sales@napubco.com for details.

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