Hip hop's amnesia [electronic resource] : from blues and the black women's club movement to rap and the hip hop movement / Reiland Rabaka.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

African American movement music : on hip hop's "partial or total loss of memory" surrounding classical black popular music and classical black popular movements -- "Back to the old school!" : on the "old school" origins and evolution of rap music, hip hop culture, and the hip hop movement -- "Lifting as we climb!" : classic blues queens and the black women's club movement, neo-soul sistas and the hip hop women's movement -- Jazzmatazz : from classic jazz and bebop to jazz rap and hip hop -- "If we must die!" : the new Negro movement, the Harlem renaissance, and the homosexual hip hop movement -- The hip hop movement : from merely rap music to a major multi-issue socio-political movement.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.