Previous edition: 2010.

Prologue "What Is Hip-Hop?" Greg Tate Part I "They Reminisce Over You": Hip-Hop History and Historiography Murray Forman 1. The Politics of Graffiti Craig Castleman 2. Zulus on a Time Bomb: Hip-Hop Meets the Rockers Downtown Jeff Chang 3. Hip-Hop's Founding Fathers Speak the Truth Nelson George 4. First Ladies Cristina Vern 5. Physical Graffiti: The History of Hip-Hop Dance Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon 6. Postindustrial Soul: Black Popular Music at the Crossroads Mark Anthony Neal Part II "Real Niggas Do Real Things": Hip-Hop Culture and the Authenticity Debates Mark Anthony Neal 7. Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia Juan Flores 8. Lookin' for the Real Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto Robin D.G. Kelley 9. Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity and the Asian American Oliver Wang 10. "Things Done Changed": Recalibrating the Real in Hip-Hop Murray Forman 11. Sampling Ethics Joseph Schloss 12. What Does Authenticity Mean in Today's Hip-Hop and How Much Does it Still Matter? Aaron Williams Part III "Baby, Look the Other Way": Hip-Hop and Gender Regina N. Bradley 13. The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay Aisha Durham, Brittney C. Cooper, and Susana M. Morris 14. From Boys to Men: Hip-Hop, Hood Films and the Performance of Contemporary Black Masculinity Robin M. Boylorn 15. I Used to be Scared of the Dick: Queer Women of Color and Hip-Hop Masculinity Andreana Clay 16. A Ratchet Lens: Black Queer Youth, Agency, Hip Hop, and the Black Ratchet Imagination Bettina L. Love 17. "Put Some Bass in Your Walk": Notes on Queerness, Hip Hop, and the Spectacle of the Undoable Scott Poulson-Bryant Part IV "Different Modes, Different Area Codes": Hip-Hop, From the Local to the Global Regina N. Bradley 18. "Represent": Race, Space, and Place in Rap Music Murray Forman 19. The Mountaintop Ain't Flat Regina N. Bradley 20. "The World is Yours": The Globalization of Hip Hop Language Marcyliena Morgan 21. "I Got the Mics On, My People Speak": On the Rise of Aboriginal Australian Hip Hop Rhyan Clapham & Benjamin Kelly 22. Ciphers, `Hoods and Digital DIY Studios in India: Negotiating Aspirational Individuality and Hip Hop Collectivity Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan & Jaspal Naveel Singh 23. Connection and Complicity in the Global South: Hip Hop Musicians and US Cultural Diplomacy Kendra Salois 24. Hip Hop Matters: Race, Space, and Islam in Chicago Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Part V "I am Hip-Hop": Hip-Hop Identities Regina N. Bradley 25. "Each One, Teach One": B-boying and Ageing Mary Fogarty 26. Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music Tennille Nicole Allen & Antonia Randolph 27. Citizenship Without Representation?: Blackface, Misogyny, and Parody in Die Antwoord, Lup Fiasco and Angel Haze Adam Haupt 28. Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the Disruption of Settler Colonialism Kyle T. Mays 29. Fat Mutha: Hip Hop's Queer Corpulent Poetics Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Part VI "Krip-Hop": Disability and Hip Hop Mark Anthony Neal 30. Back to the Community: My Life in Rap, Poetry, and Activism Leroy Moore 31. "And So I Bust Back": Violence, Race, and Disability in Hip Hop Anna Hinton 32. (Live!) The Post-Traumatic Futurities of Black Debility Mikko O. Koivisto Part VII "Fight the Power": Hip-Hop and Politics Mark Anthony Neal 33. This is America: Hip-Hop and the Black Lives Matter Movement Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Lestina Dongo, and Michael Westberg 34. Occupy Wall Street, Racial Neoliberalism, and New York's Hip-Hop Moguls Eithne Quinn 35. Amicus Brief: Taylor Bell v. Itawamba County School Board Erik Nielson, Charis E. Kubrin, Travis L. Gosa, Michael Render (AKA "Killer Mike"), et. al. 36. "AmeriKKKa's most wanted": Hip Hop Culture and Hip Hop theology as challenges to oppression Daniel White Hodge Part VIII "Put You on Game": Academia, Pedagogy, and Institutionalized Knowledge Murray Forman 37. Hip Hop Studies in Black P. Khalil Saucier & Tryon P. Woods 38. Hip Hop and the University Sara Hakeem Grewal 39. Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Future in Theory and Praxis Treva B. Lindsey 40. Hip-Hop Archives or an Archive of Hip-Hop?: A Remix Impulse Mark V. Campbell 41. "Be Current, or You Become the Old Man": Crossing the Generational Divide in Hip-Hop Education Jason D. Rawls and Emery Petchauer Part IX "Post It or It Didn't Happen": Hip-Hop in and as Media Murray Forman 42. Black College-Radio on Predominantly White Campuses: A `Hip-Hop Era' Student-Authored Inclusion Initiative Anthony Kwame Harrison 43. "Playas' and Players": Racial and Spatial Trespassing in Hip Hop Culture Through Video Games Michael Austin 44. "Every Time I Dress Myself, It Go Motherfuckin' Viral": Post-Verbal Flows and Memetic Hype in Young Thug's Mumble Rap Michael Waugh 45. City Girls, Hot Girls and the Re-Imagining of Black Women in Hip Hop and Digital Spaces Kyesha Jennings 46. The Audacity of Clout (Chasing): Digital Strategies of Black Youth in Chicago DIY Hip-Hop Jabari M. Evans and Nancy K. Baym

This reader brings together the best-known and most influential writings on hip-hop since the late 1970s. Spanning nearly 25 years of scholarship, criticism and journlism, this anthology showcases the evolution and continuing influence of hip-hop. - A standard bearer text in Hip Hop Studies, this Reader brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. - This new edition also includes greater coverage of gender, sexuality, and diversity in hip-hop, international hip-hop, and examines hip-hop's role in contemporary politics and the Black Lives Matter movement. -Features section introductions, headnotes summarizing the key points of each article, and accompanying discussion questions.