The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop

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MC origins : rap and spoken word poetry / Alice Price-Styles -- Hip-hop dance / Imani K. Johnson -- Hip-hop visual arts / Ivor Miller -- Djs and turntabilism / Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen -- The fifth element : knowledge / Travis Gosa -- Hip-hop and religion : from the mosque to the church / Christina Zanfagna -- Hip-hop theater and performance / Nicole Hodges Persley -- Lyrics and flow in rap music / Oliver Kautny -- The musical analysis of hip-hop / Kyle Adams -- The glass : hip-hop production / Chris Tabron -- Hip-hop and racial identification : an (auto)ethnographic perspective / Anthony Kwame Harrison -- Thirty years of rapsploitation : hip-hop culture in American cinema / Geoff Harkness -- Barbz and Kings : explorations of gender and sexuality in hip-hop / Regina Bradley -- Hip-hop and politics / Chris Deis -- Intertextuality, sampling, and copyright / Justin A. Williams -- Nerdcore hip-hop / Amanda Sewell -- Framing gender, race, and hip-hop in boyz in the hood, do the right thing and slam / Adam Haupt -- Japanese hip-hop : alternative stories / Noriko Manabe -- Council estate of mind : the British rap tradition and London's hip-hop scene / Richard Bramwell -- Cuban hip-hop / Sujatha Fernandes -- Senegalese hip-hop / Ali Colleen Neff -- Off the grid : instrumental hip-hop and experimentalism after the golden age / Mike D'errico -- Stylized Turkish German as the resistance vernacular of German hip-hop / Brenna Byrd -- "Bringin' '88 back" : historicizing rap music's greatest year / Loren Kajikawa -- "Where ya at?" : hip-hop's political locations in the Obama era / Michael P. Jeffries.