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General or broad topics in hip hop (TWL links)
The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop
Jstor, "Introduction: Hip Hop in History: Past, Present, and Future": [1] (2005)
Jstor, "Hip hop: Origins, Characteristics and Creative Processes": [2] (2000)
Reference works focused for a librarian audience:
Semi-broad (TWL links)
Jstor, "Historicizing the Breakbeat: Hip-Hop's Origins and Authenticity": [3] (2011)
Jstor, "The Construction of Jazz Rap as High Art in Hip-Hop Music": [4]
Jstor, "Metaphorical Conceptions in Hip-Hop Music": [5]
Jstor, "From Jay-Z to Dead Prez: Examining Representations of Black Masculinity in Mainstream Versus Underground Hip-Hop Music": [6] (likely to be most useful as a delineation of what is vs. isn't within the parameters of "underground")
Jstor, "Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s": [7] (useful for more jazz rap content?) (2011)
Jstor, "Message in the Music: Political Commentary in Black Popular Music from Rhythm and Blues to Early Hip Hop": [8] (2005)
Glorious Game
Bandcamp interview about the new Black Thought/El Michels Affair album: [9]
The Fader interview w/ Black Thought: [10]
Treble review of Glorious Game: [11]
Filling in Billy Woods ' back catalog
Interview discussing Today, I Wrote Nothing and Known Unknowns : [12]
Interview discussing History Will Absolve Me and the Super Chron Flight Brothers era: [13]
HWAM touched upon in Pitchfork's Aethiopes review: [14]
Fader interview about Aethiopes : [15]
Pitchfork interview about Backwoodz: [16]
NPR article about Woods in general: [17]
DJBooth interview about Terror Management : [18]
Vice article recounting Woods' career: [19]
Guardian on Woods in general: [20]
NPR reviews Maps , but also touches on Woods' career more broadly: [21]
Digging in further to Maps [ edit ]
Consequence: [22] (FaceTime), [23] (review; a bit perfunctory but could help diversify source pool)
Exclaim: [24] (review)
The Fader: [25] (album and tour announcement), [26] (FaceTime), [27] (Soft Landing)
Financial Times: [28] (review)
The Guardian: [29] (mentions Maps briefly)
Huck: [30] (interview)
NPR: [31] (review)
Pitchfork: [32] (album and tour announcement), [33] (FaceTime), [34] (Soft Landing video release), [35] (Babylon by Bus video)
Stereogum: [36] (announcement)
Treble: [37] (review)
Vice: [38] (discusses Maps alongside other albums)