FURTHER RESOURCES

(A working and constantly changing list of resources for research into Hip Hop Theatre)

Articles:

• • “Blowin’ Up the Set” by Holly Bass, American Theatre, 1999.
• • “Hip Hop Theater: The New Underground” by Eisa Davis, The Source, 2000.
• • “Can You Rock It Like This? Theater for a New Century” by Holly Bass. In The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism, edited by V. Labaton and D. L. Martin. New York: Anchor Books. 2004.
• “Refugees in Ghana Find Their Voice in Hip Hop Culture,” Service Matters, NYU, 2006.
• “How Hip Life Theatre was Born in Ghana” by Daniel Banks, American Theatre, 2008.
• “Hip-hop Theater’s Future and ID” by Logan Whiteside, Washington Square News, 2008.
• “Hip Hop Theatre: The Voice of Now” by Daniel Banks, Page and Stage, 2009.
• “Hip Hop Theatre: A Call for Change” by Daniel Banks, for Curtains Up!, War Child Holland Training Manual, 2009.
• “From Homer to Hip Hop: Orature and Griots, Ancient and Present” by Daniel Banks, Classical World, 2010.
• “Youth Leading Youth: Hip Hop and Hiplife Theatre in Ghana and South Africa” by Daniel Banks, in Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, New Village Press, 2011.
• • “Hip Hop Intelligences” by Daniel Banks, in An Unimagined Space: Beyond the New WORLD Theater. A project of the Hemispheric Institute, New York University (publisher TBD).
• “Here We Go, Yo…” by Danny Hoch, American Theatre. 2004.
• “Bling, or Revolution, a roundtable discussion with Daniel Banks, Chadwick Boseman, Gamal Abdel Chasten, Gwendolen Hardwick, Danny Hoch, Baraka Sele, Marla Teyolia, Clyde Valentin and Raphael Xavier,” by Randy Gener, American Theatre, 2004
• “Found in Translation,” by Eisa Davis, American Theatre, 2004
• “The Fifth Element” by Roberta Uno, American Theatre, 2004
• “Are We Dancing to Our Own Beat?” by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, American Theatre, 2004

Articles about HHTI:

• “Hip Hop as Pedagogy: Something from Something” in Theatre Topics (Vol. 25) by Daniel Banks, Ph.D. 2015.
• “Hip Hop Workshop Battles Stereotypes,” The Charleston Gazette, 2004
• “Join the Hip Hop Revolution,” Southern Theatre
• “Hip-hop Theatrical,” The Star, 2006
• “Refugees in Ghana Find Their Voice in Hip Hop Culture,” Service Matters, NYU, 2006
• “How Hip Life Theatre was Born in Ghana,” American Theatre , 2006

Books

There are many excellent books on Hip Hop culture. This is only a starter list. Please add suggestions of others on the Global Cipher page!

• Banks, Daniel (ed). 2011. Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan.
• Boyd, Todd. 2003. The New HNIC. New York: NYU.
• Chang, Jeff. 2005. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin’s.
• Chang, Jeff. 2007. Total Chaos. New York: Basic Civitas.
• Elam, Harry and Alexander, Robert (eds). 2002. The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the 21st Century. New York: Theatre Communications Group.
• Euell, Kim and Alexander, Robert (eds). 2009. Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Anthology for the Hip Hop Generation. NY: Theatre Communications Group.
• Flores, Juan. 2000. From Bamba to Hip Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Forman, Murray and Neal, Mark Anthony (eds). 2004. That’s the Joint: The Hip Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge.
• Fricke, Jim and Ahearn, Charlie (eds). 2002. Yes, Yes, Y’All: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip Hop’s First Decade. New York: DeCapo.
• George, Nelson. 1998. Hip Hop America. New York: Penguin.
• Harrison, Paul Carter; Walker, Victor Leo; Edwards, Gus (eds.). 2002. Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University.
• Kelley, Robin D.G. 1997. Yo Mama’s Disfunktional! Boston: Beacon Press.
• Kitwana, Bakari. 2002. The Hip Hop Generation. New York: Basic Books.
• Kitwana, Bakari. 2005. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America. New York: Basic Civitas Books.
• Parker, Kris (KRS-One). 2003. Ruminations. New York: Welcome Rain.
• Perkins, William Eric.1995. Droppin’ Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University.
• Perry, Imani. 2004. Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
• Potter, Russell A. 1995. Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism. SUNY Press.
• Pough, Gwendolyn D. et al. 2007. Homegirls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology. Mira Loma, CA: Parker Publishing, LLC
• Rivera, Raquel Z. 2003 New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Rose, Tricia. 1994. Black Noise by Tricia Rose. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan.
• Rose, Tricia. 2008. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop—and Why It Matters. New York: Basic Books.
• Schloss, Joseph G. 2004. Making Beats: The Art of Sample Based Hip Hop. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan.

Films

• Black Wax (1982) with Gil Scott Heron, directed by Robert Mugge
• Wild Style (1982), directed by Charlie Ahearn
• Style Wars (2004), directed by Tony Silver
• Beat Streets (1984), directed by Stan Lathan
• Krush Groove (1985), directed by Michael Schultz
• Slam (1998), directed by Marc Levin
• Graffiti Verité (1995), directed by Bob Brian
• Jails, Hospitals and Hip Hop (2000), directed by Mark Benjamin and Danny Hoch
• Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000), directed by Kevin Fitzgerald
• Scratch (2001), directed by Doug Pray
• The Freshest Kids (2002), directed by Israel
• Five Sides of a Coin (2003), directed by Paul Kell
• The MC: Why We Do It (2005), directed by Peter Spirer
• Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006), directed by Byron Hurt