Bibliography

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Banks, Daniel, ed. Across All Lines: A Critical Anthology of Hip Hop Theatre Plays. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Forthcoming (Fall 2009).

Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin’s, 2005.

———, ed. Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop.
New York: Basic Civitas, 2006.

Elam, Harry, and Robert Alexander, eds. The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the 21st Century.
New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2002.

Euell, Kim, and Robert Alexander, eds. Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Anthology for the Hip Hop Generation.
New York: Theatre Communications Group, Forthcoming.

Flores, Juan. From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia University, 2000.

Forman, Murray, and Mark Anthony Neal, eds. That’s the Joint: The Hip Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Fricke, Jim, and Charlie Ahearn, eds. Yes Yes Y’all: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop’s First Decade.
New York: De Capo, 2002.

George, Nelson. Hip Hop America. New York: Penguin, 1998.

Harrison, Paul Carter , Victor Leo Walker, and Gus Edwards, eds. Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University, 2002.

Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation.
New York: Basic Books, 2002.

KRS-One. Ruminations.
New York: Welcome Rain, 2003.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.

Okpewho, Isidore. African Oral Literature.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Rivera, Raquel Z. New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1994.

ARTICLES

Bass, Holly. “Blowing up the Set: What Happens When the Pulse of Hip-Hop Shakes up the Traditional Stage?” American Theatre, November 1999.

———. “Can You Rock It Like This?  Theater for a New Century.” In The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism, edited by Vivian Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin.
New York: Anchor Books, 2004.

Davis, Eisa. “Found in Translation” American Theatre, July/August 2004 [cited February 27, 2007. Available from http://tcg.org/publications/at/JulyAugust04/translation.cfm.

———. “Hip Hop Theater: The New Underground.” The Source, March 2000, 172-6.

Hoch, Danny. Here We Go, Yo… American Theatre, December 2004 [cited February 27, 2007. Available from http://tcg.org/publications/at/Dec04/go.cfm.

Uno, Roberta. The 5th Element American Theatre, April 2004 [cited February 28, 2007. Available from http://tcg.org/publications/at/Apr04/element.cfm.