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1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : color illustrations.
Introduction. Hip-Hop and American Culture -- Part One. Sonic Roots. The Funk Impulse ; Nation Time(s) : Jazz and Hip-Hop's Changing Same ; Return of the Griot? ; Afrofuturism, the Caribbean, and the Loop of History ; From Circuits to Aesthetics : The Samplers and Beat Making Styles of Hip-Hop's Golden Era
Part Two. On the Mic : Wax Poetics. "Like an Interstellar Wind" : Flow and Meter ; The History of Hip-Hop Rhyme in Three Samples ; Spinning Staves in Bars : Hip-Hop comes to Spoken-Word ; "Read the Fine Print" : DOOM and Persona Poetry
Part Three. Dollars and Bodies : Hip-Hop America. "Made a mil' off that mumblin' shit" : The Freestyling Cyborgs of Post-Internet Hip-Hop ; "How Much A Dollar Cost" : Hip-Hop, Race, Capitalism ; Community and Capital : Detroit Hip-Hop Collectives and the Business of Culture Creation ; The "Krip-Hop" Remix : Disability and Hip-Hop ; "Make Him Give Me Einstein" : Pop Trap and Black Women's Pleasure
Part Four. Off the Mic : Hip-Hop Media. What is the Hip-Hop Novel? ; Hip-Hop Comics : Ronald Wimberly's Intertextual Adaptations of Rap's Minor Characters ; "The Wrath of the Math" : Identity, Aesthetics and Representation in Early Hip-Hop Films ; "Black America's TV Station" : The Rise and Fall of Reality Rap ; Notes on Hip-Hop, Graffiti Subculture, and Performing Anti-Imperial Feminism in the United States.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cambridge themes in American literature and culture ; 1