Research Guides: Hip Hop Aesthetics : Reimagining the Hip Hop Archive

Reimagining the Hip Hop Archive

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These books are part of the NYU Library Collection. To find related items, use the "Subject" list on each book catalog record.

Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive
ISBN: 9781479806881
Publication Date: 2022
Black Ephemera explores the crisis and the challenge of the Black Musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global import, yet the cultural DNA of that culture is becoming obscured in the transformation from analog to digital
Hip-Hop Archives
ISBN: 9781789388428
Publication Date: 2023
A collection of essays on archiving the history of hip-hop, featuring a range of official, unofficial, DIY, and community archives. Despite the vast popularity and cultural influence of hip-hop, efforts to archive its history are still in fairly early stages.

Hip Hop and Rap Across the Smithsonian
Explore hip-hop and rap-related collections from across the Smithsonian that offer perspective on the African American experience and its impact on American culture.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, one of The New York Public Library’s renowned research libraries, is a world-leading cultural institution devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences.
Massachusetts Hip Hop Archive at UMass Boston
This Research Guide provides information about Hip-Hop Collections in the Healey Library at UMass Boston and provides researchers with information about doing research about hip-hop more broadly.
Cornell Hip Hop Collection
Established in 2007, the Cornell Hip Hop Collection preserves more than 250,000 items across dozens of archives documenting the origins of Hip Hop culture and its spread around the globe.