Assignments for today:
- Murray Forman, “Represent: Race, Space and Place in Rap Music.”
- Watch Rashad Shabazz lecture “Rap and the Geographical Imagination.”
- Submit a short (2 pg) response paper on Forman's essay. In this response I want you to do the following things: (1) Begin by giving a very brief synopsis of the article (a paragraph or so), (2) Explain Forman's thesis in the most concise terms possible (i.e. the main argument he's making in the essay), and (3) Discuss a couple of the examples he uses to support his thesis...in other words, tell me how he's making his argument. Please give me a print copy of the paper, and feel free to print on the back of old assignments, show flyers, etc.
- FILM: Style Wars (excerpts)
- MUSIC: Hip Hop and Punk (on urban space)
- The Rap Map
- Essays from the Hip Hop Studies Reader, edited by Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal (Routledge: 2004). The file includes: Murray Forman, "Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City: Hip-Hop, Space, and Place"; Davarian L. Baldwin, "Black Empires,White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop"; Andy Bennett, "Hip-Hop am Main, Rappin’ on the Tyne: Hip-Hop Culture as a Local Construct in Two European Cities"; Dick Hebdige, "Rap and Hip-Hop: The New York Connection"; David Toop, "Uptown Throwdown."
