Resources

Research resources

• Wesleyan academic databases and other open source (some require Wes login id)
• Online bpm calculator
• Most viewed videos of all time (over 450M)
• Most viewed music videos
• acharts (chart summaries in many different countries)
• US Hip Hop links
• Harvard Hip Hop Archive timeline
• discogs.com (for commercial releases)
• 40 maps

Translation

• Rap genius (for explanations of lyrics)

Journals

• Word, Beats and Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
• Global Hip Hop Studies
• Journal of Hip Hop Studies

Conferences

• University of Pennsylvania (2001): Islam and the Globalization of Hip Hop
• Trinity College, Hartford, CT (2006):Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival
• TU Chemnitz (2006): HipHop meets Academia
• Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany (2013): Hip Hop as Social Empowerment
• University of Helsinki
  • Hip Hop Studies: Global and Local (2014)
  • Hip Hop Studies: North and South (2015)

• Cambridge University (2016): ‘It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at’: The First UK Hip Hop Studies Conference; (Call for papers)

• Maison des Métallos (2017): Conçues pour durer. Perspectives francophones sur les musiques hip-hop.

• European Hip Hop Studies Network

Blogs

• africanhiphop.com

Early Versions

• “Rapper’s Delight,” Xanadu and Sweet Lady (Jamaica, 1979)
• “La Cotorra Criollo,” Perucho Conde (Venezuela, 1980), lyrics
• Hotter Reggae Music,” Welton Irie (Jamaica, 1980)
• “Rapper’s Deutsche,” G.L.S. United, 1980; video
• “Hallo, Hallo, Hallo,” Rubberen Robbie & Ko  (The Netherlands, 1979)
• “Rap Phenomena,” Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japan, 1981)
• “Rap,” Chaz Pik (Russia, 1984), English at 15:15

Articles

• “Getting Real about Global Hip Hop,” Yvonne Bynoe (2002)
• “Why is Global Hip-Hop Better Than ‘Made in America’ Rap Music“? (washingtonpost.com, 6/11/13)
• Music Theory
  • “Aspects of the Music/Text Relationship” (Adams, 2008)
    • “Response to Adams” (Williams, 2009)
  • “On the Metrical Techniques of Flow” (Adams, 2009)
• The/An Ethnomusicologist and the Record Business (Hugo Zemp, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 1996)

Competitions

• DMC World DJ Championships
• World Breaking Classic World Final 2022

Miscellaneous

• The Pudding
  • The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (The Pudding)
  • The Language of Hip Hop (The Pudding, 2017)
  • The Most Successful Labels in Hip Hop (The Pudding, 2017)
• In the Moment: Poetry Duels and Improvisation (2022) (folkstreams.net)