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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of hip hop on culture worldwide.
Trade Review'Shows how at street level a combination of low economic status, poor education and a racist criminal justice system keeps young talented MCs excluded from the music business' -- Miriam Zadik Gold, Socialist Review
Table of ContentsForeword by Robin D.G. Kelley
Introduction by Dipannita Basu and Sidney Lemelle
SIDE ONE: RAP AND HIP HOP IN THE US
1. ‘For the People,’ ‘TRIBUTE,’ and ‘REDBONE.’ by Umar Bin Hassan
2. A Rap Thing,’ ‘On Rapping Rap.’ and ‘For Mario: Homeland and Hip Hop,’ by Mumia Abu-Jamal
3. Hip Hop: As a Culture and Generation by Dipannita Basu
4. Nobody Knows My Name and an interview with the Director Rachel Raimist: A Female Hip Hop Film Maker by Dipannita Basu and Laura Harris
5. From Azeem to Zion-I: The Evolution of Global Consciousness in Bay Area Hip Hop by Eric K. Arnold
6. Head Rush: Hip Hop and a Hawaiian Nation ‘On the Rise.’ by Adria L. Imada
7. War At 33 1/3: Culture and Politics Across the Afro-Asian Atlantic. by Sohail Daulatzai
SIDE TWO: RAP AND HIP HOP GOES GLOBAL
8. Deathening Silence: The Terms of (Non) Political Commentary Rap by John Hutnyk
9. 'Keeping it Real’ in a Different ‘Hood: African-Americanization and Hip Hop in Germany by Tim Brown
10. Africa on Their Mind: Rap, Blackness and Citizenship in France by Veronique Helenon
11. Cuban Hip Hop: Underground Revolution by Annelise Wunderlich
12. Between Our Islands We Dance: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora by April K. Henderson
13. Negotiating Ethnicity and Authenticity in Tokyo’s Club Harlem by Rhiannon Fink
14. Globalization and Gangster Rap: Hip Hop in the Post Apartheid City by Zine Magubane
15. 'Ni Wapi Tunakwenda’: Hip Hop Culture and The Children of Arusha by Sidney J.Lemelle
Notes
About the Contributors
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