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Comprehensive, scholarly full-text database for multidisciplinary research; This database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals, peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and more; 1887 - Present.
Music Periodicals Database (formerly IIMP) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
pre 1967 - Present; This collection includes RILM Abstracts and Retrospective. Comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and subject indexing ; Broad & detailed coverage from hip hop to Hndel, from ethnomusicology to music therapy, from elementary music education to advanced music theory.
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Diverse Resource for Art and Music Studies: The Fine Arts & Music Collection places 10.4 million articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience. Periodical database for serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
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Access to information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global black experience; Users can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora
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Covers history, biographies, literature, arts, music, popular culture, folklore, business, slavery, the struggle for civil rights, politics, sports, education, science, medicine, and more; Content includes biographies, overview essays, primary and secondary sources, and transcripts.

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In a world where education and career opportunities are more competitive than ever, the need for you to obtain broader perspectives on a variety of global business issues is a necessity. Which is why FIU has joined The Wall Street Journal in a collaboration that will provide students and faculty full direct access to the Journal.
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Comprehensive news collection ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level; Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.

Hiphop Literacies by Elaine Richardson
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2006
Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture.
Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops by Brad Weiss
Call Number: Green Library
Publication Date: 2009
For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip hop music, fashion, and celebrity.
»Sicher in Kreuzberg« : Constructing diasporas : Turkish hip-hop youth in Berlin by Ayhan Kaya
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 3839400716
Publication Date: 2015
Examines the construction and articulation of diasporic cultural identity among the Turkish working-class youth in Kreuzberg (Little Istanbul), Berlin.
From Kung Fu to Hip Hop by M. T. Kato
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1429471336
Publication Date: 2007
Examines Bruce Lee s movies, the countercultural aesthetics of Jimi Hendrix, and the autonomy of the hip hop nation to reveal the emerging revolutionary paradigm in popular culture.
The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture by Dipannita Basu (Editor); Sidney Lemelle (Editor)
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2006
'Hip Hop is Dead! Long Live Hip Hop!'From the front lines of hip hop culture and music in the USA, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Hawaii, Tanzania, Cuba, Samoa and South Africa, academics, poets, practitioners, journalists, and political commentators explore hip hop -- both as a culture and as a commodity.
Hip Hop Africa by Jean Ngoya Kidula (Contribution by); Alex Perullo (Contribution by); John Collins (Contribution by); Jochen Seebode (Contribution by); Eric Charry (Editor); Rainer Polak (Contribution by); Jesse Weaver Shipley (Contribution by); Lee Watkins (Contribution by); Patricia Tang (Contribution by); Daniel B. Reed (Contribution by); John Fenn (Contribution by); Stephanie Shonekan (Contribution by)
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2012
Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants.

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The sound of global hip hop: Why the genre resonates around the world
From WBUR: Here & Now
Hip-hop’s future will be less American and more global
From the Economist.
Hip-hop is 50. Its formula for global domination? Staying local
NPR: All Songs Considered
Planet World: Divercities Forum
Global Hip Hop Continuum.
Hip Hop: A Culture of Vision and Voice
From the Kennedy Center.
The Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of all Time
From BBC Music.
The History of Hip Hop
Fresh Air interviews with some of the most iconic people in Hip Hop

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