Hip-hop (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Wimsatt, W. Bomb the suburbs, c1994.

Handbk. of Am. popular culture, 1989: v. 1, p. 561 (Hip Hop, an urban subculture that has created art forms all its own)

New Grove dict. of Am. music: v. 2, p. 394 (hip-hop; collective term for the black urban art forms that emerged in the late 1970s; also applied specifically to a style of music; "hip-hop sessions," consisting of break dancing, graffiti art, and rap)

Readers' Guide (Hip-Hop)

Am. her. dict. (hip-hop)

Random House (hip-hop)

Concise Oxford dict. of soc.; Encyc. of soc.

Here are entered works on the popular subculture of big- and inner-city youth that includes rap music, break dancing, and graffiti art.