Hip-Hop Archives

Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. He is co-founder of the Bigger than Hip Hop radio show (1997-2015) and founder at Northside Hip Hop Archive. Mark is an Assistant Professor of Music and Culture at the University of Toronto Scarborough in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media. Murray Forman is among the first generation of hip-hop studies scholars, his academic research having directly engaged various facets of hip-hop culture since the early 1990s. His books include The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (2002), and (with co-editor Mark Anthony Neal) That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (1st edition 2004; 2nd edition, 2012) as well as One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television (2012). An inaugural Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at the Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, Harvard University (2014-2015), he is Professor of Media & Screen Studies at Northeastern University.

List of Figures vii



Acknowledgments ix



Introduction: “An Archival State of Mind” xiii



Mark V. Campbell



 



SECTION 1: DOING THE KNOWLEDGE 1



1. The Hip Hop Archive and the High School Student: Symbiotic Knowledge Disruption 3



Kulsoom Anwer Shaikh



2. Hip Hop as a Practical and Methodological Issue: Libraries in Russia 19



Sergey Ivanov



3. Hip Hop Dance and the Circulation of Breaking Footage 41



Mary Fogarty and Jason “J-Sun” Noer



4. The Black History 101 Mobile Museum and the Michigan Hip-Hop Archive 57



Khalid El-Hakim



 



SECTION 2: CHALLENGING ARCHIVAL FORMS 77



5. As We Walk through the Archived Files of All Styles: Archival Practices and Cultural Memory on Battle Rap Forums 79



Sean Robertson-Palmer



6. The Responsibilities and Challenges of Community-Engaged Archives: Lessons from Building the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive 96



Pacey Foster



7. The Ballad of “Grandmaster PH”: Contesting Narratives and Lost Archives in Philippine Hip-Hop 114



James Gabrillo



8. Painting, Image, and Cultural Heritage: The Graffiti Mural Fascinate as Visual Ecology 129



Jacob Kimvall



9. Oral History and the Accidental Archive 154



Giuseppe “u.net” Pipitone



 



SECTION 3: BEYOND THE NATION 167



10. Traces of Solidarity and Breakdown: Domestic Collection in Post-Yugoslav Hip Hop Fanzines and Mixtapes 169



Owen Kohl and Dragana Cvetanović



11. Living Archives: Producing Knowledge about Hip-Hop Culture in East Germany 196



Leonard Schmieding



12. Rap Cubano in the Archive: The Immaterial Paradox 221



Pablo D. Herrera Veitia



 



SECTION 4: INSTITUTIONAL ALIGNMENTS: INTERVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS 249



13. Nwaka Onwusa (Vice President and Chief Curator, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) 251



14. Ben Ortiz (Assistant Curator, Cornell Hip Hop Collection) 268



15. Martha Diaz (Chief Curator/Archivist, Hip Hop Education Center and Associate Curator/Archivist, Universal Hip Hop Museum) 281



 



Afterword 297



Murray Forman



Notes on Contributors 309



Index 317