Contemporary Black Urban Music: The Revolution of Hip Hop

Contents

• Preface
•  Acknowledgments
• 1 Learning Objectives: Introduction
•  2 Characteristics of Music and Musical Terminology
•  3 Evolution of Early African American Music
•  4 Bebop: Afro Modernism via the African Diaspora
•  5 Rhythm and Blues: The Proto-Rock and Roll
•  6 Memphis Soul-Chicago Soul
•  7 Motown
• 8 Transition to Funk
•  9 Funk Jazz
•  10 Hyper Funk
•  11 Dub
•  12 Origins of East Coast Hip-Hop
•  13 The Arrival of Hip-Hop
•  14 Early Sneaker Culture
•  15 Electro-Funk
•  16 Earlier Styles versus Later Styles
•  17 Turntablism: The Early Years
•  18 Battle Royale: Dissing on Record
•  19 The British Invasion: Proto-Neo-Soul
•  20 The Golden Age of Hip-Hop
•  21 Miami Bass: 2 Live Crew/East Coast Dirty Rap
•  22 The New Divas
•  23 WHAT’S BEEF?—Not Meat
• 24 East Coast Mafioso Rap
•  25 Origins of West Coast Hip-Hop
•  26 West Coast ‘Gangsta’ and the Midwest
•  BEEF: PART II
•  27 Beats and Rhymes and Beyond
•  28 Neo-Soul
•  29 Underground Hip-Hop
• 30 Conscious Commercial
•  31 Southern Exposure: “Street Fame”
•  32 Alternative Hip-Hop
•  33 The Neo Cannabis Crew
•  34 The Mainstream
• 35 Globalization: The Revolution of Hip-Hop
•  36 Lamont Coleman: ‘BIG L’—In Memoriam
•  Appendix: Assessment Index
•  Appendix: Quizzes