How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race Coddington Amy
How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race Coddington Amy A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.…
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How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop: Radio, Rap, and Race Coddington Amy
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Constructed primarily by the Top 40 radio format, the musical mainstream featured mostly white artists for mostly white audiences. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop examines the programming practices at commercial radio stations in the 1980s and early 1990s to uncover how the radio industry facilitated hip hop's introduction into the musical mainstream.
At the same time, as artists negotiated expanding audiences and industry pressure to make songs fit within the confines of radio formats, the sound of hip hop changed. With the introduction of hip hop to these programs, the radio industry was fundamentally altered, as stations struggled to incorporate the genre's diverse audience. Drawing from archival research, Amy
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