Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Research Papers Graduate School 2005 Hip Hop Culture: History and Trajectory R J. Riesch Southern Illinois University Carbondale,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp Recommended Citation Riesch, R J., "Hip Hop Culture: History and Trajectory" (2005). Research Papers. Paper 32. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp/32 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Papers by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Hip Hop Culture: History and Trajectory by R. Jonathan Riesch B.A., Southern Illinois University, 2002 A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Arts Degree Department of History in the Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale December, 2010 RESEARCH PAPER APPROVAL HIP HOP CULTURE: HISTORY AND TRAJECTORY By R. Jonathan Riesch A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the field of History Approved by: Dr. Robbie Lieberman, Chair Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale November 12, 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE TEXT .................................................................................................................. 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................. 27 VITA ................................................................................................................. 29 iii 1 While trying to find common ground, my sixty-year-old father-in-law and I began talking about his new job as a speech communications instructor at Eastern Illinois University and my position as a teaching assistant in Southern Illinois University’s history department. As he spoke about the speeches that he had assigned to his classes he stopped to ask me what “hip hop” is.