Abstract
This document represents our guiding principles in exploring the relationship between Hip Hop and contemporary theater. It includes our syllabus, course calendar and working bibliography.References
Style Wars produced by Public Art Films, 2004.
Banks, Daniel. Say Word: Voices from Hip Hop Theater. The University of Michigan Press, 2011.
Bass, Holly. “Can You Rock It Like This?” in The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism, edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin. Anchor: 2004.
Carlos, Laurie. White Chocolate for My Father in Moon Marked and Touched By Sun edited by Sydne Mahone. Theater Communications Group, 1994.
Chang, Jeff. Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop. Basic Civitas, 2007.
Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Elam, Harry. Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka. University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Euell, Kim. Plays from the Boombox Galaxy: Theater from the Hip Hop Generation. Theater Communications Group, 2009.
Forbes, Kamilah. Rhyme Deferred in The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the 21st Century edited by Harry Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander. Theater Communications Group, 2002.
Jones, LeRoi. “The Revolutionary Theater.” http://www.nathanielturner.com/revolutionarytheatre.htm
Jones, Omi Osun Joni L., Lisa Moore and Sharon Bridgforth. Experiments in a jazz aesthetic : art, activism, academia, and the Austin Project. University of Texas Press, 2010.
Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G. Hip Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap. University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Rose, Tricia. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters. Basic Books, 2008.
Rux, Carl Hancock. Rux Revue. 55 MUSIC, 1999.
Sanchez, Sonia. Homegirls and handgrenades. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1984.
Sapp, Steven and Mildred Ruiz. Slanguage in The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the 21st Century edited by Harry Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander. Theater Communications Group, 2002.
Scott-Heron, Gil . The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Bluebird/RCA, 1988.
Shange, Ntozake. for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. Scribner, 1989.
Sundiata, Sekou. Long Story Short. Righteous Babe Records, 2000.