| Acknowledgements |
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| General Introduction |
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Part I "Hip-Hop Ya Don't Stop": Hip-Hop History and Historiography |
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1 "The Politics of Graffiti" |
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2 "Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown" |
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23 | (17) |
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3 "B-Beats Bombarding Bronx: Mobile DJ Starts Something With Older R&B Disks" and "Jive Talking N.Y. DJs Rapping Away in Black Discos" |
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40 | (3) |
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4 "Hip-Hop's Founding Fathers Speak the Truth" |
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43 | (13) |
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5 "Physical Graffiti: The History of Hip-Hop Dance" |
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56 | (7) |
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Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon |
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6 "Hip-Hop Turns 30: Watcha Celebratin' For?" |
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63 | (6) |
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Part II "No Time For Fake Niggas": Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates |
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69 | (156) |
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7 "Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia" |
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73 | (19) |
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92 | (10) |
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9 "On the Question of Nigga Authenticity" |
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102 | (14) |
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10 "Arabic Hip-Hop: Claims of Authenticity and Identity of a New Genre" |
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116 | (18) |
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11 "Lookin' for the `Real' Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto" |
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134 | (19) |
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12 "Hip-Hop Chicano: A Separate but Parallel Story" |
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153 | (11) |
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13 "Authenticity Within Hip-Hop and Other Cultures Threatened With Assimilation" |
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164 | (15) |
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14 "Race ... and Other Four-Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity" |
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179 | (20) |
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15 "Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC" |
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199 | (26) |
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Part III "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City": Hip-Hop, Space, and Place |
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225 | (120) |
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16 "Black Empires, White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop" |
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228 | (19) |
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17 "`Represent': Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music" |
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247 | (23) |
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18 "Rap's Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture" |
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270 | (24) |
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19 "Global Black Self-Fashionings: Hip-Hop as Diasporic Space" |
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294 | (21) |
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20 "Hooligans and Heroes: Youth Identity and Hip-Hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania" |
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315 | (21) |
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21 Litefoot, Grant Leigh Saunders, Mohammed Yunus Rafiq, and Jaas: "Native Tongues: A Roundtable on Hip-Hop's Global Indigenous Movement" |
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336 | (9) |
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Part IV "I'll Be Nina Simone Defecating on Your Microphone": Hip-Hop and Gender |
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345 | (90) |
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22 "I Used to Be Scared of the Dick: Queer Women of Color and Hip-Hop Masculinity" |
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348 | (10) |
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23 "`Cover Your Eyes as I Describe a Scene so Violent': Violence, Machismo, Sexism, and Homophobia" |
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358 | (12) |
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24 "`The King of the Streets': Hip-Hop and the Reclaiming of Masculinity in Jerusalem's Shu`afat Refugee Camp" |
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370 | (12) |
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25 "Scared Straight: Hip-Hop, Outing, and the Pedagogy of Queerness" |
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382 | (17) |
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26 "Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance" |
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399 | (14) |
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413 | (6) |
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28 "Butta Pecan Mamis: Tropicalized Mamis: Chocolate Caliente" |
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419 | (16) |
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Part V "The Message": Rap, Politics, and Resistance |
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435 | (92) |
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29 "Intergenerational Culture Wars: Civil Rights vs. Hip-Hop" |
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438 | (13) |
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30 "The Challenge of Rap Music from Cultural Movement to Political Power" |
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451 | (11) |
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31 "Voyeurism and Resistance in Rap Music Videos" |
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462 | (14) |
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32 "Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads" |
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476 | (27) |
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33 "My Mic Sound Nice: Art, Community, and Consciousness" |
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503 | (15) |
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34 "Rise Up Hip-Hop Nation: From Deconstructing Racial Politics to Building Positive Solutions" |
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518 | (9) |
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Part VI "Looking for the Perfect Beat": Hip-Hop, Technology, and Rap's Lyrical Arts |
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527 | (104) |
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35 "`Bring It to the Cypher': Hip-Hop Nation Language" |
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530 | (34) |
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36 "Airshafts, Loudspeakers, and the Hip-Hop Sample" |
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564 | (15) |
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37 "Hip-Hop: From Live Performance to Mediated Narrative" |
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579 | (16) |
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38 "`Dead Prezence': Money and Mortal Themes in Hip-Hop Culture" |
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595 | (14) |
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609 | (22) |
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Part VII "I Used to Love H.E.R.": Hip-Hop in/and the Culture Industries |
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634 | (21) |
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41 "The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suite" |
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655 | (17) |
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42 "`I Don't Like to Dream About Getting Paid': Representations of Social Mobility and the Emergence of the Hip-Hop Mogul" |
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672 | (18) |
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43 "Black Youth and the Ironies of Capitalism" |
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690 | (24) |
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44 "An Exploration of Spectacular Consumption: Gangsta Rap as Cultural Commodity" |
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714 | (18) |
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| Contributors |
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732 | (10) |
| Permissions |
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742 | (3) |
| Index |
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