Abd Al Malik, Gibraltar
Resources on Abd Al Malik
Music by Abd Al Malik
Le Face-à-face des cœurs (Atmosphériques, 2004).
Gibraltar (Atmosphériques/Polydor, 2006).
Dante (Polydor, 2008).
Château Rouge (Barclay, 2010).
Books by Abd Al Malik
Qu’Allah bénisse la France! (Paris: Albin Michel, 2004).
La Guerre des banlieues n’aura pas lieu (Paris: Le Cherche Midi, 2010).
Le Dernier Français (Paris: Le Cherche Midi, 2012).
Abd Al Malik's official website
Abd Al Malik in the media
Talking about the film version of Qu'Allah bénisse la France (out December 2014)
Film review: Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2014/12/09/qu-allah-benisse-la-france-abd-al-malik-filme-son-passage-d-un-cote-a-l-autre-de-la-rue_4536995_3476.html
Talking about the terrorist attacks in Paris of Jan 2015
Writing about Abd Al Malik
Olivier Bourderionnet, ‘A “Picture-Perfect” Banlieue Artist: Abd Al Malik or the Perils of a Conciliatory Rap Discourse’, French Cultural Studies, 22.2 (2011), pp. 151-61, http://0-frc.sagepub.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/content/22/2/151.full.pdf+html
Jacques Denis, ‘Rap domestiqué, rap révolté’, Le Monde diplomatique, September 2008 
Faysal Riad, ‘Un truc de malade: Abd Al Malik, ou la pétainisation du slam’, Collectif les mots sont importants, http://lmsi.net/Un-truc-de-malade
Provot, Karine, La France est sa banlieue: L’identité française et sa périphérie urbaine à travers le cinéma,
les médias et la musique. Published PhD thesis available here: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ap/10?0::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:81700
Interview with Abd Al Malik on Gibraltar
Abd Al Malik, le poète de la rue, http://www.skyrock.fm/radio/difool/index.php?m=6&l=1&sm=&a=lire_news&id=6054
General works on French hip hop
Bocquet, José-Louis and Philippe, Pierre-Adolphe, Rap ta France (Paris: J’ai lu, 1999).
Durand, Alain-Philippe (ed.), Black, Blanc, Beur: Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002).
General works on hip hop
Forman and Neal (eds.), That’s the Joint!: The Hip Hop Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004).
Krims, Adam, Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 2000).
Useful general works on the study of pop music
Chambers, Iain, Urban Rhythms: Pop Music and Popular Culture (London: MacMillan, 1985), ML 3561.P6
Frith, Simon, Performing Rites: Evaluating Popular Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), ML 3561.P6
Hesmondhalgh, Desmond and Negus, Keith (eds.), Popular Music Studies (London: Arnold, 2002), ML 3561.P6
Longhurst, Brian, Popular Music and Society (Cambridge: Polity, 1995), ML 3561.P6
Middleton, Richard (ed.), Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), ML 3561.P6.
Negus, Keith, Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction (Cambridge: Polity, 1996), ML 3561.P6
Shuker, Roy, Key Concepts in Popular Music (London: Routledge, 1998), ML 3561.P6
referencing popular music
resources
seminar 1 worksheet
seminar 2 worksheet
lecture 1 powerpoint slides
lecture 1 lyric sheet
lecture 2 powerpoint slides
lecture 2 lyric sheet