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On this week’s show, we return to the topic of hip-hop on the radio. While on Radio Survivor, we typically focus on non-commercial radio, like college and community stations; in this episode we look at why certain types of commercial radio stations were important to the growth in popularity of hip-hop music. Our guest, Amy Coddington, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Amherst College and is writing a book about the history of hip-hop on commercial radio.
Show Notes:
- Amy Coddington’s website
- Podcast #145: Hip-Hop Radio Archive with guest Ryan MacMichael
- Podcast #152: The Longest Running Hip-Hop Radio Show in the World? with guest DJ A-L
- Community radio station KGNU is home to The Eclipse Show
- Racial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
- Backstory on “Walk this Way” from the Atlantic: “How Aerosmith and Run-DMC Begrudgingly Made a Masterpiece”
- Power 106 Los Angeles radio station
- Jason Tanz wrote the book: Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America
- Public Enemy’s “Rebel without a Pause” in the HipHop Archive and Research Institute
- Chuck D
- Paula Abdul’s Opposites Attract
- Amber Ruffin on rap lyrics being cut from radio edits of songs
- Snoop Dog
- Hot 97 radio station in New York
- Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight (1979)
- Blondie’s Rapture (1980)
- Wham’s Wham! Rap (1982)
- Influential DJ Frankie Crocker of radio station WBLS
- The Pharcyde
