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Hip Hop can't be adequately summarized in a reddit post. Fortunately, there are many great books that tell the story!

Jeff Chang's work is a good place to start. Can't Stop, Won't Stop gives a great overview of hip hop's origins in New York and beyond. Total Chaos and We Gon' Be Alright deal with contemporary political and aesthetic issues. Also check out Tricia Rose's work, particularly The Hip Hop Wars, which is a collection of essays that surveys a great deal of repertoire and could give you ideas on how to involve hip hop into your curriculum. Also check out this edition of the journal Radical Teacher for curriculum ideas.

There are a few textbooks that breakdown Hip Hop more chronologically, but I've never much cared for them. You could check one out here. I prefer readers like That's the Joint! and The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop, which are quite affordable and fun to read!

As far as listening, I'd ask your students what they are listening to and listen along with them. There is a lot going on in Hip Hop right now and it's a great time to dive in. Head over to /r/hiphopheads as well if you want to keep abreast of what's new!

Schonberg’s Lives of the Great Composers is a good overview of classical music from the late Renaissance/early Baroque music of Monteverdi and going up to as recent as the 1970s-80s, however it may have been updated since I only have the first edition. Easy to read and does not get technical with music theory too much. Definitely a good read for someone who isn’t necessarily a music student but interested in the subject! The Lives of the Great Composers https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393038572/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_NOL5Ab9HFARNC

This book is what got me into music history when I was a teenager, so it might be a good start. I actually studied composition instead but still...

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Man-Yehudi-Menuhin/dp/0354043900

Is really well written and told in a non academic "boring" way, maybe in a similar vein as The History of Art by Gombrich, but of course, focusing on music instead. Discusses cultural and political context for each musical period, of course is very European centric, even though it has some pages exploring music around the world. Also, somehow old, is still very clever in the predictions and dilemas of the future (electronic music and the change of paradigm). It also features a great interview with Yehudi Menuhin.

http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Great-Composers-Harold-Schonberg/dp/0393038572

it focuses, obviously, on composers and doesn't talk much about form, harmony, etc. but it's a great read

It's been far too long since I went into the literature on this sort of thing for me to recommend papers, but I remember reading a great book on the subject of music and cognitive psychology if you've not already one across it:

The Musical Mind by John Sloboda,

it was very readable and had plenty of further references. If I remember, I seemed to come across more research straddling this intersection in terms of psychology and NLP rather than via the musicology route.

The chair of musicology at my university wrote this. According to one of my professors who collaborated with Smith on this book, there really shouldn't be any distinction of the two. He argues that American music exists almost entirely because of the slave trade. Yes, there are European influences in our ideas of harmony, but you can trace the ideas of polyrhythm (specifically the backbeat), call and response ideas and the preference for ensemble, as well as some other influences. Those influences specifically spurred the creation of blues, some ideas in country, and subsequently R&B, then rock and roll.

Source: Am a TA for a History of Rock and Roll course.

I think this book by Roger Matthew Grant is pretty much exactly what you’re looking for. “Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era”
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/beating-time-and-measuring-music-in-the-early-modern-era-9780199367283?cc=us&lang=en&#

Also, Ruth DeFord is a specialist in this area, and has a book on rhythm in early music, albeit somewhat earlier than what you’re talking about https://www.amazon.com/Tactus-Mensuration-Rhythm-Renaissance-Music/dp/1107064724

An Introduction to Music Studies offers short introductions to many of the different aspects of musicology and is an excellent place to start.

I think you're looking for the Chansonnier du Roi, specifically fols. 103v-104v.

As for recordings, here are a few:

Estampies & Danses Royales

Danse Royale

Le Chansonnier du Roi