Hip-Hop Archives

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. This book focuses on the cultural and political aspects of those undertakings. It addresses practical aspects including methods of collection curation preservation and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power community engagement urban economics public access and the ideological implications of hip-hop cultures enduring tensions with dominant social values. A wide swath ofhip-hop culture is covered by the contributorsincluding dance graffiticlothing and battle rap.