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Hip-Hop Culture In College Students' Lives
Posted on January 11, 2012 - 11:55am — AlvinBCarter3College campuses have become rich sites of hip-hop culture and knowledge production. Despite the attention that campus personnel and researchers have paid to student life, the field of higher education has often misunderstood the ways that hip-hop culture exists in college students' lives.
Common: Rap's Role Model
Posted on October 25, 2011 - 12:56pm — Allyson McGintyRapper, actor, and best-selling author Common covers this isssue of Rolling Out Magazine, discussing his new memoir One Day It'll All Make Sense and his entrance into the rap game. Also included in this edition of Rolling Out are interviews with Professor Marcyliena Morgan and Professor Jocelyn Wilson about The Hip Hop Archives, and hip hop's role in academia.

That's The Joint!
Posted on October 12, 2011 - 12:39pm — Allyson McGintyThis newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume.
That's The Joint!
Posted on October 12, 2011 - 12:39pm — Allyson McGintyThis newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume.
Do The Right Thing
Posted on October 5, 2011 - 2:11pm — Allyson McGintyCelebrating just more than 20 years since its seminal debut, Do The Right Thing remains one of the most important and controversial films of its era. Employing director Spike Lee's hometown of Brooklyn as the essential setting, this explosive film masterfully explores race and class relationships.

The Record
Posted on August 3, 2011 - 2:32pm — zephyrannThe Record is the full-color catalog accompanying the groundbreaking exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from September 2, 2010 through February 6, 2011.

Creative License
Posted on August 3, 2011 - 2:21pm — zephyrannHow did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other musicians’ frequent use of the beats he performed on those songs?

Buena Vista in the Club
Posted on August 3, 2011 - 2:10pm — zephyrannIn Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón.
