Def Jam Recordings

Title

Def Jam Recordings

Company

Def Jam Recordings, founded in 1984, in New York City, New York, the United States

Headquarters

New York City, New York, the United States

Archive Information

Keyword

Music
Radio broadcasting
Best sellers

Company history website

Bibliography and scholarship

Edmondson, Vickie Cox. "A Preliminary Review of Competitive Reactions in the Hip‐Hop Music Industry: Black American Entrepreneurs in a New Industry." Management Research News (2008).
Hendricks, Leta. "Viewing the Hip: An Overview of Rap Music in Film." Popular Culture in Libraries 5, no. 1 (1998): 1-19.
Jennings, Kyesha. “Def Jam Recordings.” St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture, 2018.
Morgan, Marcyliena, and Dionne Bennett. “Hip-Hop & the Global Imprint of a Black Cultural Form.” Daedalus 140, no. 2 (2011): 176–96. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23047460.

Access

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