| Contents |
Introduction: Power moves from the hip-hop nation to the hip-hop globe -- Phat beats, dope rhymes, and def moves: the Africanist aesthetic meets the hip-hop globe -- Beat streets in the global hood: hip-hop's connective marginalities -- Props to the local boyz: hip-hop culture in Hawai'i -- "It's all about the Benjamins": postmodernism and hip-hop's appropriation. |
| Abstract |
This book explores how a vital, expressive culture, which began in a New York Black and Latino impoverished community, has become a global delineating sign of the new millennium. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006049846 |
| ISBN | 1403976309 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781403976307 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781403976307 |
