{"product_id":"how-hip-hop-became-hit-pop-9780520383920","title":"How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop","description":"A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/luminos.165\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e to learn more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Hip Hop Became Hit Pop\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Constructed primarily by the Top 40 radio format, the musical mainstream featured mostly white artists for mostly white audiences. 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. 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. Drawing from archival research, Amy Coddington shows how the racial structuring of the radio industry influenced the way hip hop was sold to the American public, and how the genre's growing popularity transformed ideas about who constitutes the mainstream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe author gratefully acknowledges the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Amy Coddington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48275350847739,"sku":"9780520383920","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_970055ac-380c-471b-aefe-b1639c2cd83b.jpg?v=1771084593","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/how-hip-hop-became-hit-pop-9780520383920","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}