List of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: "An Archival State of Mind" xiii Mark V. Campbell SECTION 1: DOING THE KNOWLEDGE 1 1. The Hip Hop Archive and the High School Student: Symbiotic Knowledge Disruption 3 Kulsoom Anwer Shaikh 2. Hip Hop as a Practical and Methodological Issue: Libraries in Russia 19 Sergey Ivanov 3. Hip Hop Dance and the Circulation of Breaking Footage 41 Mary Fogarty and Jason "J-Sun" Noer 4. The Black History 101 Mobile Museum and the Michigan Hip-Hop Archive 57 Khalid El-Hakim SECTION 2: CHALLENGING ARCHIVAL FORMS 77 5. As We Walk through the Archived Files of All Styles: Archival Practices and Cultural Memory on Battle Rap Forums 79 Sean Robertson-Palmer 6. The Responsibilities and Challenges of Community-Engaged Archives: Lessons from Building the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive 96 Pacey Foster 7.

The Ballad of "Grandmaster PH": Contesting Narratives and Lost Archives in Philippine Hip-Hop 114 James Gabrillo 8. Painting, Image, and Cultural Heritage: The Graffiti Mural Fascinate as Visual Ecology 129 Jacob Kimvall 9. Oral History and the Accidental Archive 154 Giuseppe "u.net" Pipitone SECTION 3: BEYOND THE NATION 167 10. Traces of Solidarity and Breakdown: Domestic Collection in Post-Yugoslav Hip Hop Fanzines and Mixtapes 169 Owen Kohl and Dragana Cvetanovic 11. Living Archives: Producing Knowledge about Hip-Hop Culture in East Germany 196 Leonard Schmieding 12. Rap Cubano in the Archive: The Immaterial Paradox 221 Pablo D. Herrera Veitia SECTION 4: INSTITUTIONAL ALIGNMENTS: INTERVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS 249 13.

Nwaka Onwusa (Vice President and Chief Curator, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) 251 14. Ben Ortiz (Assistant Curator, Cornell Hip Hop Collection) 268 15. Martha Diaz (Chief Curator/Archivist, Hip Hop Education Center and Associate Curator/Archivist, Universal Hip Hop Museum) 281 Afterword 297 Murray Forman Notes on Contributors 309 Index 317.