Rap (Music) -- Political aspects.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Afrika Bambaataa hip hop archive
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8094
Scope and content
Approximately 40,000 sound recordings representing Bambaataa's music collection from the 1970s to the present. The archive also includes books, documents, and files relating to the founding and spread of the Universal Zulu Nation; and videos, papers, and clothing.
Dates:
circa 1972-2016.
Phyllis Pollack papers
Collection
Identifier: 8130
Scope and content
Papers include magazine and newspaper articles, photographs, posters, photocopies and ephemera documenting Hip Hop in the 1980s and 90s. Included are FOIL copies of the FBI's files on Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E, a recording contract for an album featuring Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys, a press release for NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" video, which was banned by MTV. Other documentation focuses on the rise of gangsta rap, the censorship of rap lyrics and the controversy over the Recording...
Dates:
circa 1985-2000.