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Hip Hop Aesthetics

This graduate-level course examines aesthetics in hip hop culture and production from the 1970s to the present.

Welcome

This guide provides resources for the NYU course, Hip Hop Aesthetics, led by Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls. Topics are grouped with shared resources together. Reimagining the Hip Hop Archive is a cooperative list of resources compiled by the graduate course.

 

NYU's on-site music collection is located on the seventh floor of Bobst Library including the Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media.

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Kristen Owens (she/her), Librarian for African American and Black Diaspora Studies

Liz Berndt (she/her), Librarian for Music