Reading list

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