Podcast # 320 – How Hip-Hop Made it to Top 40 Radio

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 […]

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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 websitePodcast #145: Hip-Hop Radio Archive with guest Ryan MacMichaelPodcast #152: The Longest Running Hip-Hop Radio Show in the World? with guest DJ A-LCommunity radio station KGNU is home to The Eclipse ShowRacial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi and Howard WinantBackstory 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 AmericaPublic Enemy’s “Rebel without a Pause” in the HipHop Archive and Research Institute Chuck DPaula Abdul’s Opposites AttractAmber Ruffin on rap lyrics being cut from radio edits of songsSnoop DogHot 97 radio station in New YorkSugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight (1979)Blondie’s Rapture (1980)Wham’s Wham! Rap (1982)Influential DJ Frankie Crocker of radio station WBLSThe Pharcyde

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