Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997-2007
Matt Miller, Emory University
Essay Sections:
Introduction | Rap
and Place | The Rap Map Unfolds | Rap Scenes and Styles | Marketing | Dirtiness Defined | Dirtiness in Southern Rap | Get Crunk |
Visual Culture | Conclusion | Notes| Recommended Resources
Recommended Resources:
Print Materials:
Bennett, Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson, eds. Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual (Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2004).
Campbell, Luther and John R. Miller. As Nasty As They Wanna Be: The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew (Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992).
DeNora, Tia. Music in Everyday Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Forman, Murray. The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
Grem, Darren E. "'The South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop America." Southern Cultures 12:4 (2006), 55-73.
Gaunt, Kyra D. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
Keyes, Cheryl. Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002).
Krims, Adam. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Durham, Duke Univ. Press, 2003).
Miller, Matt. "Rap's Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture." Journal of Popular Music Studies 16:2 (2004).
Richardson, Riché. Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007).
Sarig, Roni. Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing (New York: Da Capo Press, 2007).
Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing, 1930-1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Films:
Crunk Kings: The Movie (Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2006).
The Dirty South: Raw and Uncut (Slip N Slide, 2000).
Dirty States of America: the Untold Story of Southern Hip-Hop (Image Entertainment, 2004).
Links:
Cocaine Blunts and Hip-hop Tapes
http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/
Down-South.com
http://www.down-south.com/
Twankle & Glisten
http://twankleandglisten.blogspot.com/
Bennett, Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson, eds. Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual (Nashville: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2004).
Campbell, Luther and John R. Miller. As Nasty As They Wanna Be: The Uncensored Story of Luther Campbell of the 2 Live Crew (Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992).
DeNora, Tia. Music in Everyday Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Forman, Murray. The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
Grem, Darren E. "'The South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-Hop America." Southern Cultures 12:4 (2006), 55-73.
Gaunt, Kyra D. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop (New York: New York University Press, 2006).
Keyes, Cheryl. Rap Music and Street Consciousness (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002).
Krims, Adam. Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Durham, Duke Univ. Press, 2003).
Miller, Matt. "Rap's Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture." Journal of Popular Music Studies 16:2 (2004).
Richardson, Riché. Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007).
Sarig, Roni. Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing (New York: Da Capo Press, 2007).
Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing, 1930-1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Films:
Crunk Kings: The Movie (Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2006).
The Dirty South: Raw and Uncut (Slip N Slide, 2000).
Dirty States of America: the Untold Story of Southern Hip-Hop (Image Entertainment, 2004).
Links:
Cocaine Blunts and Hip-hop Tapes
http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/
Down-South.com
http://www.down-south.com/
Twankle & Glisten
http://twankleandglisten.blogspot.com/
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Campbell's career and the early Miami scene are covered in this 1992 publication (Barricade Books). |
Essay Sections:
Introduction | Rap
and Place | The Rap Map Unfolds | Rap Scenes and Styles | Marketing | Dirtiness Defined | Dirtiness in Southern Rap | Get Crunk |
Visual Culture | Conclusion | Notes| Recommended Resources
