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Frontlist Talking Points Ebk Pub Date: March 2018
St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture Print Pub Date: March 2018
Hip hop culture has had a meaningful impact on the lives of students and young scholars who are looking at it
as a topic worthy of serious scholarship. From 2012 to the present Google Scholar reveals 18,800 results for
“hip hop”, with many articles looking at hip hop culture outside the United States.
Public: Hip hop is included in programing at large public libraries like Queens Library, honoring its local history
and culture with “8 Days of Nonstop Hip Hop” in May 2015. The Schomburg Center (NYPL) hosted “First
Friday ‘Hip Hop’ edition” in May 2016, with similar programming at other urban libraries engaging their
communities.
Schools: Hip hop is being incorporated into K12 curriculum to engage students in learning English language
arts, history, and even science. Teachers and students would find this a valuable resource for research and
reference.
Description and Key Features:
The St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture presents some 250 articles that examine the history and
contributions of hip hop to American and global culture. It provides academic and public libraries with a muchneeded
authoritative reference resource defining, exploring, and analyzing this significant aspect of culture and
history. School libraries, especially high school, would likely see high usage as students seek citable sources
for research papers.
Entries will provide information about the music (rap and DJing), dance (break dancing), and visual arts
(graffiti) that are the artistic expressions of hip hop culture, featuring the people, places, events, and works that
started the movement and established hip hop as a global phenomenon. Entries will also examine hip hop’s
influence in other artistic arenas such as fashion, film, and poetry; its impact on education, politics, social
activism, racial and ethnic identity, and globalization; and its many contributions to American, urban, black, and
Latino culture.
1 full-color volume with 250 alphabetical articles, 180 color photos, see also references, sources for further
research included with each article, and a detailed subject index.
Complimentary Titles
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
Gale Database Relationships
Selected articles from this title may appear in some of our In Context databases, but the full contents
are only available in the print or ebook edition.
Editorial Leads
Christine Slovey, Acquisitions Editor
Carol Schwartz, Senior Content Developer
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