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Black History Month 2024 - Ode to Hip Hip

The theme for Black History Month 2024 is African Americans and the Arts. Cultural movements, such as hip-hop, have been led by people of African descent and set the standard for popular trends around the world.

East Lansing Public Library

15 items

  • Born to Use Mics

    Reading Nas's Illmatic

    Book, 2009New York : Basic Civitas Books, 2009. — 782.421649 BOR
  • Dilla Time

    the Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

    Charnas, Dan,
    Book, 2022New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — B J DILLA 2022
  • Ode to Hip-hop

    50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music

    Fitzgerald, Kiana,
    Book, 2023Philadelphia : Running Press, 2023. — 782.42 FIT
  • 3 Kings

    Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-hop's Multibillion-dollar Rise

    Greenburg, Zack O'Malley,
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 782.42 GRE 2018
  • Heaven Was Detroit

    From Jazz to Hip-hop and Beyond

    Book, 2016Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2016] — 780.97 HEA
  • God Save the Queens

    the Essential History of Women in Hip-hop

    Iandoli, Kathy,
    Book, 2019New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — 782.42 IAN 2019
  • Fashion Killa

    How Hip-hop Revolutionized High Fashion /

    Krishnamurthy, Sowmya,
    Book, 2023New York : Gallery Books, 2023. — 306.48 KRI
  • Graphic Novel, 2013–Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, 2013- — GN HIP V.1
  • Book, 2010New York : Riverhead Books, 2010, c2009 — 782.421 RZA
  • Original Gangstas

    the Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap

    Westhoff, Ben,
    Book, 2016New York : Hachette Books, 2016. — 781 WES 2016
  • Masters of the Sun

    the Zombie Chronicles

    Will.i.am,
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2017. — GN MASTERS