The vinyl ain't final
Subtitle: hip hop and the globalization of black popular culture
By: edited by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle.
Contributors: Basu, Dipannita.; Lemelle, Sidney J.
Publisher: Pluto
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Rap (Music) -- Social aspects; Rap (Music) -- Political aspects; Hip-hop -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Grooving to the vinyl stateside : rap and hip hop in the U.S. For the people, Tribute, and Redbone ; A rap thing, on rapping rap, and hip hop or homeland security ; Hip hop : cultural clout, corporate control, and the carceral cast ; Nobody knows my name and an interview with the director Rachel Raimist ; From Azeem to Zion-1 : the evolution of global consciousness in Bay Area hip hop ; Head rush : hip hop and a Hawaiian nation on the rise ; War at 33 1/3 : hip hop, the language of the unheard, and the Afro-Asian Atlantic; title: Rap and hip hop groove globally. The nation question : fundamental and the deathening silence ; Keeping it real in a different 'hood : (African-) Americanization and hip hop in Germany ; Africa on their mind : rap, blackness, and citizenship in France ; Cuban hip hop : making space for new voices of dissent ; Dancing between islands : hip hop and the Samoan diaspora ; Negotiating ethnicity and authenticity in Tokyo's Club Harlem ; Globalization and gangster rap : hip hop in the post-apartheid city ; Ni wapi tunakwenda : hip hop culture and the children of Arusha.