Hip-Hop Archives

Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar and curator. He is co-founder of the Bigger than Hip Hop radio show (1997-2015) and founder at Northside Hip Hop Archive. Mark is an assistant professor of music and culture at the University of Toronto Scarborough in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media.Murray Forman is among the first generation of hip-hop studies scholars, his academic research having directlyengaged various facets of hip-hop culture since the early 1990s. His books include The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (2002) and (with co-editor Mark Anthony Neal) That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (1st edition 2004; 2nd edition, 2012) as well as One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television (2012). An inaugural Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at the Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute, Harvard University (2014-2015), he is professor of media and screen studies at Northeastern University.

• List of Figures viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: “An Archival State of Mind” xiiiMark V. Campbell SECTION 1: DOING THE KNOWLEDGE 11. The Hip Hop Archive and the High School Student: Symbiotic Knowledge Disruption 3Kulsoom Anwer Shaikh2. Hip Hop as a Practical and Methodological Issue: Libraries in Russia 19Sergey Ivanov3. Hip Hop Dance and the Circulation of Breaking Footage 41Mary Fogarty and Jason “J-Sun” Noer4. The Black History 101 Mobile Museum and the Michigan Hip-Hop Archive 57Khalid El-Hakim SECTION 2: CHALLENGING ARCHIVAL FORMS 775. As We Walk through the Archived Files of All Styles: Archival Practices and Cultural Memory on Battle Rap Forums 79Sean Robertson-Palmer6. The Responsibilities and Challenges of Community-Engaged Archives: Lessons from Building the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive 96Pacey Foster7. The Ballad of “Grandmaster PH”: Contesting Narratives and Lost Archives in Philippine Hip-Hop 114James Gabrillo8. Painting, Image, and Cultural Heritage: The Graffiti Mural Fascinate as Visual Ecology 129Jacob Kimvall9. Oral History and the Accidental Archive 154Giuseppe “u.net” Pipitone SECTION 3: BEYOND THE NATION 16710. Traces of Solidarity and Breakdown: Domestic Collection in Post-Yugoslav Hip Hop Fanzines and Mixtapes 169Owen Kohl and Dragana Cvetanović11. Living Archives: Producing Knowledge about Hip-Hop Culture in East Germany 196Leonard Schmieding12. Rap Cubano in the Archive: The Immaterial Paradox 221Pablo D. Herrera Veitia SECTION 4: INSTITUTIONAL ALIGNMENTS: INTERVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS 24913. Nwaka Onwusa (Vice President and Chief Curator, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) 25114. Ben Ortiz (Assistant Curator, Cornell Hip Hop Collection) 26815. Martha Diaz (Chief Curator/Archivist, Hip Hop Education Center and Associate Curator/Archivist, Universal Hip Hop Museum) 281 Afterword 297Murray FormanNotes on Contributors 309Index 317

'The editorial duo comprised of the OG of hip hop studies, Murray Forman, and one of the pioneers in hip hop archiving, Mark V. Campbell, provides a comprehensive volume of essays dedicated to the understanding of the intricacies and challenges of archiving... The authors bring their own flavour while remixing the traditional archival studies by incorporating hip hop’s concepts of representing, digging, building and sampling. They also challenge cultural institutions and their assumed neutrality and objectivity by shedding light on gatekeeping tactics and the existing power relations and ideologies. Essays of this volume challenge professional archives that focus on elites while ignoring the contributions of popular culture in general and underrepresented groups and their culture in particular.Authors of this volume make a strong case for the topics of archivization, museumification, and the role of private collections, to be introduced as a stable part of popular music studies and curricula in general, and hip hop in particular, in hopes of inspiring the next generation of professional archivists and curators.'