Bibliography Music and Diaspora
Dear all,
some of you may be longing for a bibliography about music and diaspora. I hope it will be of help!
Christine
Book Chapters
2010 forthcoming: 'British-Asian Music and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Popular Music' in Rinella Cere (ed) Post-Colonial Britain (Palgrave London)
2009 'Musical Jihad' in John Storey (ed) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (4th Edition Longman London) originally published 2006: 'Musical Jihad', Soundings, Summer, 33
2004: 'Musical Jihad: Hip Hop Music and British-Muslims' Jihad musical? Musique Hip-hop et musulmans en Grande-Bretagne et France' (co-authored with Steve Cannon) in Alec G. Hargreaves (ed) Minorités ethniques anglophones et francophones:études culturelles comparatives (Harmattan Press)
Bibliography that might be useful:
Bibliography and further reading
Alim, H “Hip-Hop and Islam”, Al-Ahram Weekly 7-13 July 2005 No 750 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/750/feature.htm
(last accessed 8/4/08).
Back, L New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives (London, UCL press, 1996)
Cannon, S & Dauncey H. Popular Music in France from chanson to techno: Culture, Identity and Society (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2003).
Dyson, M Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
J L, Decker, "The State of Rap: Time and Place in Hip-Hop Nationalism" in A. Ross and T. Rose (eds.), Microphone Fiends Youth Music and Youth Culture, (London and New York: Routledge, 1994).
Forman, M. & Anthony Neal, M., eds. . That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. (New York & London: Routledge, 2004)
Garofalo, R. “ Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement.”
In Garofalo, R (editor) Rocking the Boat: Mass Music and Mass
Movements (Boston: South End Press, 1992).
Gardell, M. Countdown to Armageddon: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam (London: Hurst and Company, 1996).
Gilroy, P. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. (London & New York: Verso, 1993)
Huq, R “Asian Kool? Bhangra and Beyond” in S. Sharma , Hutnyk, J and Sharma, A. (editors) Dis-orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. (London: Zed Books, 1996).
Hutnyk, J “Repetivive beatings or criminal justice? In S. Sharma. , Hutnyk, J and Sharma, A. (editors) Dis-orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. (London: Zed Books, 1996).
Hyder, R. Brimful of Asia: Negotiting Ethnicty on the UK Music Scene. (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2004).
Kalra, V Hutnyk, J and Sharma , S, “Re-Sounding (anti) racism, or concordant politics? Revolutionary antecedents.” In S. Sharma. , Hutnyk, J and Sharma, A. (editors) Dis-orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. (London: Zed Books, 1996)
Kitwana, B. The Rap on Gangsta Rap (Chicago : Third World Press, 1994).
Lincoln, C E. Black Muslims in America (Grand Rapids Michigan: William B Eerdmans, 1994).
Lincoln, C E and Mamiya, L. The Black Church in the African-Amercian Experience (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1994).
Lipsitz, G . Dangerous Cross roads: popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place (London: Verso, 1994).
Lusane, C. 1993 "Rap, Race and Politics," in Race and Class, 35 (1), p41-56
Marqusee, M Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and Spirit of the Sixties (New York: Verso Press, 1999).
Mercer. K Welcome to the Jungle. (London, Routledge, 1994).
Mitchell, T (editor). Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA (MiddletownUSA: Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
Negus, K, Popular Music Theory An Introduction (Cambridge :Polity Press, 1996)
Rose, T. Black Noise (Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1994).
Ross, A & Rose, T(editors.). Microphone Fiends Youth Music and Youth Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1994)
Saeed, A 2007 “Media, Racism and Islamophobia: The
Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Media” in
Sociology Compass (1), 2, p443-462
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00039.x
last accessed 17/9/08
Saeed, A 2006 “Musical Jihad” in Soundings. Issue 33
Saeed, A “9/11 and the Consequences for British-Muslims”, in
Carter, J and Morland, D (editors) in Anti-Capitalist Britain.
(Manchester: New Clarion Press, 2004).
Saeed, A. Muhammad Ali and the Politics of Cultural Identity” In A Bernstein and N Blain (Editors) Sport, Media and Society: Global and Local Dimensions (London: Frank Cass, 2003)
Sharma, S , Hutnyk, J and Sharma, A. (editors) Dis-orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. (London: Zed Books, 1996)
Shomari, H From the Underground: Hip Hop Culture As An Agent of Social Change (New Jersey X Factor Publications, 1995)
Swedenburg, T ‘Homiesin the hood: rap’s commodification of in surbordination’ New Formations 17 (1989) 53-66
Van De Burgh, W New Day In Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Ward, B. Just My Soul Responding (London: UCL Press, 1998)
Werner, C. A Change is Gonna Come: Music Race and the Soul
of America, (Edinburgh: Payback Press,1998)
Zook, K. "Reconstructions of Nationalist Thought in Black Music and Culture" in Reebee Garofalo (ed.), Rocking the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements (Boston : South End Press,1992) pp255-266
Discography
Asian Dub Foundation 1995: Facts and Fiction, Nation Records
Asian Dub Foundation 1998 : Rafi’s Revenge, London
Asian Dub Foundation 2000: Community Music, London
Asian Dub Foundation 2005: Tank, Rinse it Out Records
Fun^Da^Mental 1994: Seize the Time, Nation Records
Fun^Da^Mental 1998 : Erotic Terrorism, Nation Records
Fun^Da^Mental 2003: Voice of Mass Destruction Nation Records
Fun^Da^Mental 2006 All is War (The Benefits of G-Had) Nation Records
Useful Links for Muslim Hip-hop
www.muslimhiphop.com/
Useful link that has downloadable songs and tracks. Also possible to search name of specific artist and hear samples of music.
www.youth.ibn.net/music.
Muslim web page that features link to songs by Muslim artists including hip-hop.
Specific Artists
www.asiandubfoundation.com/
Music and videos of Asian Dub Foundation.
www.fun-da-mental.co.uk/
Original British Muslim group with links to politics as well as music.
www.guerillafunk.com
Web page for Oakland rapper Paris formerly of the Nation of Islam which features links to Public Enemy and a multitude of radical political information including readings on Chomsky.
www.blakstone.com
UK based group which features links to music, video and Islamic history.
- Christine Horz's blog
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