Faculty

Murray Forman

Associate Professor

Office Location: 209 Holmes Hall
Office Phone: 617-373-5004
Email: m.forman@neu.edu

Office Hours:
Monday: 12:00-1:00
Wednesday: 12:00-1:00
By Appointment

Education:
Ph.D. Communications, McGill University (Montreal)
MA Media Studies, Concordia University (Montreal)
BA Mass Communication and Film Studies, Carleton University (Ottawa)

Courses Taught:
Media, Culture, & Society
Theories of Media & Culture
Media Audiences
Television: Text and Context
Television, Culture, and Society
Media Criticism
History and Analysis of Media Arts
Popular Music, Technology, and Society
Music and Politics
The Social History of Popular Music

Research Interests:
Dr. Forman's main research interests are in the social uses of popular music and the critical analysis of media industries, cultural production, and communication. His work also engages with issues of media and representation in contemporary society, with particular emphasis on images and discourses pertaining to race and ethnicity and issues of youth, elders, and age in society. He is the author of "The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop" (Wesleyan University Press, 2002) and Co-editor, with Mark Anthony Neal, of "'That's the Joint!': The Hip-Hop Studies Reader" (Routledge, 2004), as well as authoring numerous articles on youth, race, popular music, television, and film. He is currently completing a book length project titled "One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Music on Television Before Elvis" (forthcoming, Duke University Press) for which he received a 2003-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Dr. Forman serves on the Advisory Board of the Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University) as well as serving on editorial advisory boards of several scholarly journals, including "Critical Studies in Media Communication", "The Journal of Popular Music Studies", "Music, Sound, and the Moving Image", "Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society", and "Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies".

Publications:

• (Editor, with Mark Anthony Neal) That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• "Soundtrack To A Crisis: Music, Context, Discourse." Television and New Media. Spring 2002.
• The Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and Hip Hop. Hanover: N.H: Wesleyan University Press, March 2002.
• "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn." American Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 1, March 2002.
• "Straight outta Mogadishu: Prescribed Identities and Performative Practices Among Somali Youth in North American High Schools." Topia 5:33 2001
• Hip Hop America and The Vibe History of Hip Hop. (book review) Journal of Popular Music Studies, 13:2 December 2001.