Murray Forman

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.