The Online Books Page

Hip-hop

Here are entered works on the popular subculture of big- and inner-city youth that includes rap music, break dancing, and graffiti art.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• African American arts
• Popular culture -- United States

• Hip-hop -- Influence
• Hip-hop -- Political aspects
• Hip-hop -- United States

• Hip-hop culture
• Hiphop

• Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law (c2009), by Richard L. Schur (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Marc D. Perry
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Foundations of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020), ed. by Anthony Kwame Harrison and Craig E. Arthur (multiple formats at with commentary at vt.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Drumvoices Revue (issues online 1991-2008) (partial serial archives)
• Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts (issues online 1995-2004) (partial serial archives)
• Fire!! (full serial archives)

• The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Howard Rambsy (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Big Sea (c1940), by Langston Hughes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs (PDF at Ohio State)

• Pop Culture Versus Real America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), ed. by Jonathan Margolis, Martin J. Manning, and Megan A. Wong (PDF at america.gov)
• Capital at the Brink: Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), ed. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Harry Justin Elam and Kennell A. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Stephen J. Whitfield (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• The Foundations of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020), ed. by Anthony Kwame Harrison and Craig E. Arthur (multiple formats at with commentary at vt.edu)
• A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture, by Clayton Funk (multiple formats with commentary at at Pressbooks)

• These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Michael Tavel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Satori to Silicon Valley (electronic edition, with new introduction and afterthoughts; 2000), by Theodore Roszak (illustrated HTML at Stanford)
• Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by James C. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition), by Arthur Kroker (HTML at archive.org)

• Woodstock Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Jeffrey N. Gatten (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Michael Tavel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Vanity Fair (humor weekly of the 1860s) (partial serial archives)

• The Baffler (1988-) (full serial archives)

• Slate (full serial archives)
• Americana, ed. by H. L. Mencken (full serial archives)

• The Monthly Magazine, and American Review (full serial archives)

• In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Stephen J. Whitfield (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Satori to Silicon Valley (electronic edition, with new introduction and afterthoughts; 2000), by Theodore Roszak (illustrated HTML at Stanford)

• New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Thomas Frank (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)