Departments
Communication Studies
Education
- Ph.D. Communication Studies, McGill University (1997)
Awards
- 2015 Nasir Jones Fellowship/Research Institute Resident Fellow, Hip-Hop Archive, W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University
- 2013 Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung) , Hannover Germany
- 2003-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 2002 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship
- 1998 Research Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Research Focus
- Hip-Hop history and culture
- Critical age studies
- Popular music
- Popular music; culture and society
Murray Forman has written widely about popular music, age, and culture, and he is a pioneer in the field of hip-hop studies. His research has led to invitations to speak throughout the U.S. and in Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Russia, Sweden, and the UK. He is also a founding editor of the Global Hip Hop Studies journal. Along with several prominent research awards and fellowships, in 2014-2015 he was an inaugural Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellow at Harvard University.
Research/Publications Highlights
- 2023 Campbell, Mark V. and Murray Forman (eds.) Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production. Bristol, UK: Intellect.
- 2023 Forman, Murray, Mark Anthony Neal, and Regina N. Bradley (eds.). That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. 3rd edition, New York: Routledge.
- 2012 Forman, Murray. 2012. One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- 2012 Forman, Murray and Mark Anthony Neal (eds.). That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. 2nd edition, New York: Routledge.
- 2004 Forman, Murray and Mark Anthony Neal (eds.). That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. 1st Edition. New York: Routledge.
- 2002 Forman, Murray. 2002. The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Professional Affiliations
Member: International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
Journal Board member:
- Journal of Popular Music Studies
- Journal of World Popular Music
- Music and the Moving Image
- Popular Music
- Souls: Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
- Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University
Advisory Board Member, Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap, National Museum of African American History and Culture
