Race at the Interface: Rendering Blackness on WorldStarHipHop.com

WorldStarHipHop.com (WSHH) is an online video aggregating website that describes itself as “the premiere online hip hop destination” and a home for “urban media.” Yet, browsing through the site provides little clarity on what constitutes a hip-hop video or urban Internet space because of the disparate video content, the actual racial diversity of the performers, and the website’s generic design. As a result, WSHH’s taglines make a strange claim about the current state of the black musical tradition. Through close readings of the site, this article considers the architecture of this space of interracial exchange and identifies the interface as an example of Modernist architectural simplicity. I argue WSHH’s modular design is flexible enough to include non-black bodies, while remaining a black “urban” space. Thus, the site’s straightforward architecture paradoxically becomes the scaffolding of a much more complex, de-corporealized, and “shareable” blackness.

A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments : with an account of the Gaelic language, literature, and music by the Rev. Thomas Maclauchlan, and an essay on Highland scenery by the late Professor John Wilson /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Gael = An gaeḋal : a monthly bi-lingual magazine devoted to the promotion of the literature, history, language, art, music, industries, etc. of Ireland ...

Editors: -Oct. 1901, Geraldine M. Haverty.- S.J. Richardson.

The original rhythmical grammar of the English language : or, the art of reading and speaking, on the principles of the music of speech.

"The system on which this grammar is founded is that of Mr. Joshua steel... in his Proeodia rationalis."--Pref., p. xiii.

A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments. with an account of the Gaelic language, literature, and music by the Rev. Thomas Maclauchlan ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The Artistic tenor. [music] : a collection of standard ballads and arias /

Words in English or English and original language.

Christmas and New Year songs. [music] /

"Reprinted from the first and second volumes of Folk songs of many peoples."

The Universal songster: or, Museum of mirth : forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of ancient and modern songs in the English language, with a copious and classified index /

Added engraved title-pages.

The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship.

Includes (p. [253]-460): Hymns and spritual songs. In three books. 1. Collected from the Scriptures. 2. Composed on divine subjects. 3. Prepared for the Lord's supper. By Isaac Watts ... Boston, 1819.

The Psalms of David : imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to Christian use and worship /

Without music.

Plain reasons why neither Dr. Watts' Imitations of the Psalms, nor his other poems, nor any other human composition, ought to be used in the praises of the great God our Saviour--but, that a metre version of the book of Psalms, examined, with wise and critical care by pious and learned divines, and found by them to be as near the Hebrew metre Psalms, as the idiom of the English language would admit, ought to be used.

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