The Cambridge companion to hip-hop

Abstract

Introduction: the interdisciplinary world of hip-hop studies Justin A. Williams Part I. Elements: 1. MC origins: rap and spoken word poetry Alice Price-Styles 2. Hip-hop dance Imani K. Johnson 3. Hip-hop visual arts Ivor Miller 4. DJs and turntabilism Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen 5. The fifth element: knowledge Travis Gosa 6. Hip-hop and religion: from the mosque to the church Christina Zanfagna 7. Hip-hop theater and performance Nicole Hodges Persley Part II. Methods and Concepts: 8. Lyrics and flow in rap music Oliver Kautny 9. The musical analysis of hip-hop Kyle Adams 10. The glass: hip-hop production Chris Tabron 11. Hip-hop and racial identification: an (auto)ethnographic perspective Anthony Kwame Harrison 12. Thirty years of rapsploitation: hip-hop culture in American cinema Geoff Harkness 13. Barbz and kings: explorations of gender and sexuality in hip-hop Regina Bradley 14. Hip-hop and politics Chris Deis 15. Intertextuality, sampling, and copyright Justin A. Williams Part III. Case Studies: 16. Nerdcore hip-hop Amanda Sewell 17. Framing gender, race, and hip-hop in Boyz in the Hood, Do the Right Thing and Slam Adam Haupt 18. Japanese hip-hop: alternative stories Noriko Manabe 19. Council estate of mind: the British rap tradition and London's hip-hop scene Richard Bramwell 20. Cuban hip-hop Sujatha Fernandes 21. Senegalese hip-hop Ali Coleen Neff 22. Off the grid: instrumental hip-hop and experimentalism after the golden age Mike D'Errico 23. Stylized Turkish German as the resistance vernacular of German hip-hop Brenna Byrd 24. 'Bringin' '88 back': historicizing rap music's greatest year Loren Kajikawa 25. 'Where ya at?': Hip-hop's political locations in the Obama era Michael Jeffries.