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)

Blogs

• africanhiphop.com

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)

• “Nearly a Quarter of All Streams on Spotify Are Hip-Hop. Spotify’s Global Editors Reflect on the Genre’s Growth” (Spotify, 8/10/2023)

• 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)