The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop

Contents

• 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.