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    Grandmaster Flash

    Birth of a Culture

    Step into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement began. Birth of a Culture gives you a front-row seat to the origins of hip-hop, told through the firsthand experiences of Grandmaster Flash--one of the founding pioneers...
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  • Emily Q. Shuman

    Reflexivity in French Rap: More Than a Mirror to the Republic

    Reflexivity in French Rap offers a new look at rap's position in the French cultural landscape. Emily Q. Shuman examines how French rappers hold up a mirror to themselves and to their social world, playing off the terms of debate over the music's aesthetic...
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  • Trashon Tray Plus Waller

    I Was Slept On

    I pray this book about my life inspires and motivates others to keep pushing. I was born and raised in Cocoa, Florida (Brevard County). While chasing my dreams in a small city I had to overcome a lot of obstacles. My vision was too...
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  • Russell Ehrnsberger

    16 Bars at a Time: Rap Voice and Delivery Mastery

    Lyrics matter.Flow matters.But delivery is what makes people listen.16 Bars at a Time: Rap Voice & Delivery Mastery is Book 8 in the 16 Bars at a Time series and focuses on the most overlooked skill in rap: how your voice carries intention, emotion,...
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    Elizabeth Way

    Fresh Fly Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style

    On a hot summer night in August of 1973, DJ Kool Herc and his sister, Cindy, put on a "back to school jam" in the rec room of their apartment block at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the West Bronx. The rest is history. The...
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  • Beastie Boys: Licensed to Ill - 40 Years by Merlis, Benjamin
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    Benjamin Merlis

    Beastie Boys: Licensed to Ill - 40 Years

    Fight for your right to celebrate 40 years of Beastie Boys' groundbreaking debut album--Licensed to Ill--through vivid photography, track-by-track analysis, and new interviews. When Licensed to Ill hit the Billboard charts in 1986, it didn't just make history--it rewrote it. The Beastie Boys' mix...
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    Tamer Nafar

    3gs: An Imaginary Memoir

    From "the Chuck D of Palestinian hip-hop" (Los Angeles Times), a memoir of three generations of one family of Palestinians up against loss, oppression, and a shape-shifting past, present, and future, in a work of stunning originality and kinetic energy 3Gs tells the stories...
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    Mwenda Ntarangwi

    The Street Is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya

    To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. Mwenda Ntarangwi...
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  • Michael Frizell

    Orbit: The History of Hip Hop

    Before the stages, before the platinum plaques, there was a block party in the Bronx and a movement born from rhythm, rebellion, and raw truth. Orbit: The History of Hip Hop is a 22-page, full-color comic that traces the genre's rise from its underground...
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  • Making Music: Conversations with Record Producers by Crane, Larry
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    Larry Crane

    Making Music: Conversations with Record Producers

    THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS with people who have made records with some of the biggest names in music. Along the way, they might be engineering the recordings, picking the songs, guiding the singers, picking the best takes of songs, balancing egos,...
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  • Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification by Harrison, Anthony Kwame
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    Anthony Kwame Harrison

    Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification

    "Hip Hop Underground"ais a vivid ethnography of the author's observations and experiences in the multiracial world of the San Francisco underground hip hop scene. While Anthony Kwame Harrison interviewed area hip hop artists for this entertaining and informative book, he also performed as the...
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  • Celebrating Moonshine Music: Creativity, Culture & Cognizance by Goddess, Eyeneye
    Eyeneye Goddess

    Celebrating Moonshine Music: Creativity, Culture & Cognizance

    Celebrating Moonshine Music: Creativity, Culture, and Cognizance is a heartfelt memoir honoring the life and legacy of B.Howard (Howard Soul). Blending memory, poetry, and reflection, it captures his voice, artistry, and spirit through stories, lyrical passages, and experience.Carrying themes of love, legacy, identity, creativity,...
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  • Hacking Hip Hop: Design Remix Logic in Research, Method, and Practice by Wilson, Joycelyn
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    Joycelyn Wilson

    Hacking Hip Hop: Design Remix Logic in Research, Method, and Practice

    Hacking Hip Hop is a methodological memoir and critical study that positions Hip Hop as a powerful system of design thinking. Drawing on personal narrative, cultural analysis, mathematical reasoning, and more than two decades of teaching and research, Dr. Joycelyn Wilson introduces "Design Remix...
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  • Eminem - The Complete Quiz Book by Demure, B.
    B. Demure

    Eminem - The Complete Quiz Book

    Love him or loathe him, you can't ignore him-Eminem is a lyrical force of nature. From the moment he burst onto the scene with The Slim Shady LP, Marshall Bruce Mathers III has bent words, challenged norms, and stirred controversy with every bar he...
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  • Who Is Sayin' She's a Gold Digger? by Pemberton, Jennifer
    Jennifer Pemberton

    Who Is Sayin' She's a Gold Digger?

    Author: Jennifer PembertonISBN-10: 3639085744ISBN-13: 9783639085747Publisher: VDM VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2008Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
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  • The Matrix of Hip-Pop/Rap over Black & White Culture by Ramos, Maurice
    Maurice Ramos

    The Matrix of Hip-Pop/Rap over Black & White Culture

    There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Maurice RamosISBN-10: 1984553402ISBN-13: 9781984553409Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2018Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d
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  • Lyrical Assassins: 50 of the Greatest Prophet Emcees by Collyear, LaMonte
    LaMonte Collyear

    Lyrical Assassins: 50 of the Greatest Prophet Emcees

    Lyrical Assassins: 50 of the Greatest Prophet Emcees is an illustration of my personal tribute to the gifted men and women whose extraordinary oratory skills have garnered my attention to listen, learn, admire, and respect. Hip-hop music has been through quite a few transformations...
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  • Empire and Black Images in Popular Culture by Wright, Joshua K.
    Joshua K. Wright

    Empire and Black Images in Popular Culture

    FOX's musical drama Empire has been hailed as the savior of broadcast television, drawing 15 million viewers a week. A "hip-hopera" inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear and 1980s prime-time soap Dynasty, the series is at the forefront of a black popular culture Renaissance--yet has...
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  • New York State of Mind 1.0: Exclusive 1992-1993 Interviews with Tragedy Khadafi, Brand Nubian, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth by Rosen, Harris
    Harris Rosen

    New York State of Mind 1.0: Exclusive 1992-1993 Interviews with Tragedy Khadafi, Brand Nubian, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

    A fascinating genuine narrative formed in the crucible of Golden Age Hip-Hop mindfulness. Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive original interviews as...
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  • Bts: Beneath the Surface by Khoury, Danielle
    Danielle Khoury

    Bts: Beneath the Surface

    You didn't find BTS. BTS found you. One normal day, you listened to a BTS song and your world shifted a little. Well, maybe a lot. But really, why does it feel like it was written just for you? BTS: Beneath The Surface is...
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  • I Only Shout So You Can Hear Me by Lil Jon
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    Lil Jon

    I Only Shout So You Can Hear Me

    An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader.Author: Lil JonISBN-10: 1668061473ISBN-13: 9781668061473Publisher: Atria/Black Privilege PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2026Pages: 304Format: Hardcover
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  • The Gospel According to DMX by DMX
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    DMX

    The Gospel According to DMX

    A posthumous book from hip-hop legend DMX that brings readers into the heart of his faith--a raw, redemptive collection of prayers and never-before-seen spiritual writings revealing the struggle and hope behind one of music's most uncompromising voices. Authorized by the Estate of Earl "DMX"...
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  • The Large by Kitson, Kai
    Kai Kitson

    The Large

    The Large is a book by Kai Kitson which is about logistics and world peace. This is the book that you haven't been waiting for. This is the book that follows all the dang rules. This is the book you might not never maybe...
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  • Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities: Branches of One Living Tree by Medlicott
    Medlicott

    Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities: Branches of One Living Tree

    A pioneering study of the Shaker west's opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar,...
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  • Defacing the Music: What Slips into the Grooves Once God Gets Removed by Legend, Reggie
    Reggie Legend

    Defacing the Music: What Slips into the Grooves Once God Gets Removed

    If you're a Christian who loves Hip-Hop, then this book is for you!The original intent of music was to bring glory and honor to the name of God as the Creator of all things. Yet, like all men born into this earth, music has...
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  • Hip Hop's Wall $Treet by Okere, Julian Chucky
    Julian Chucky Okere

    Hip Hop's Wall $Treet

    Author: Julian Chucky OkereISBN-10: 1420828703ISBN-13: 9781420828702Publisher: Authorhouse UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2005Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d
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  • Murder Dog The Interviews Vol. 1 by Bone, Black Dog
    Black Dog Bone

    Murder Dog The Interviews Vol. 1

    Murder Dog, the number one Hip Hop publication for underground Hip Hop for over twenty years, has a treasure trove full of Hip Hop history and we are thrilled to start rolling out the Murder Dog titles. The Interviews, Volume 1 features many great...
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  • Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asian America by Ambudkar, Utkarsh
    Utkarsh Ambudkar

    Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asian America

    Desi Rap explores the connection between South Asian Americans and hip-hop as both a sociopolitical/cultural movement and performative identity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is the first book of its kind to interrogate ideas about ownership of culture while asserting the distinctness of South...
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  • Earth Martians by Alvarado, Dante
    Dante Alvarado

    Earth Martians

    Earth Martians: a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of graffiti culture. It's definitely a physical oddity, but what does graffiti means emotionally, and mentally? Why does graffiti exist in this world? What graffiti art mean and why do we do...
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  • No Sense in Wishing: Essays on Black Music, Belonging, and Baltimore by Burney, Lawrence
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    Lawrence Burney

    No Sense in Wishing: Essays on Black Music, Belonging, and Baltimore

    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Kirkus Reviews "Earnest and engaging." --The New Yorker A personal and analytical essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal and analytical look at his home city of Baltimore, music from...
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  • Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition by McCool, Jeremy C.
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    Jeremy C. McCool

    Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition

    Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole blazed paths that salvaged socially conscious rap at a pivotal time in history. Conscious rap, a subgenre of hip-hop music that engages in dialogue about social and political issues and often challenges systems of oppression, ascended with pioneers like...
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  • The Real Eminem: Revelations of an American Original by Rosen, Harris
    Harris Rosen

    The Real Eminem: Revelations of an American Original

    THE REAL EMINEM is a lively authentic look at the most successful artist to debut after 1983 and the most successful rapper of all-time featuring 90+ unseen 1999 black & white photos and 2 exclusive1999 interviews. Eminem outsold every artist across the globe in...
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  • Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry by Pemberton, Rollie
    Rollie Pemberton

    Bedroom Rapper: Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry

    Author: Rollie PembertonISBN-10: 0771051905ISBN-13: 9780771051906Publisher: McClelland & StewartLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2026Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.75h x 5.60w x 0.88d
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  • Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made by McCoy, Austin
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    Austin McCoy

    Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made

    For fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they changed the look, sound, and feel of Black America.Music artists and trends come and go, but every once in...
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  • The Life and Times of a Cameroonian Icon: Tribute to Lapiro de Mbanga Ngata Man by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh
    Peter Wuteh Vakunta

    The Life and Times of a Cameroonian Icon: Tribute to Lapiro de Mbanga Ngata Man

    This book is the celebration of one man's vendetta against a cancerous regime that thrives on the rape of democracy and human rights abuses. Lapiro de Mbanga, born Lambo Sandjo Pierre Roger on April 7, 1957 was a conduit for social change. He fought...
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  • Purists and Peripherals: Hip-Hop and Grime subcultures by Dedman, Todd
    Todd Dedman

    Purists and Peripherals: Hip-Hop and Grime subcultures

    Purists and Peripherals examines audience engagement with two cultural forms, hip-hop and grime. The book initially addresses the continued academic validity of the term subculture in light of recent moves to realign cultural studies to an understanding of youth cultural engagement as fragmented and...
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  • No Sense in Wishing: Essays by Burney, Lawrence
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    Lawrence Burney

    No Sense in Wishing: Essays

    A BEST BOOK OF 2025: The New Yorker - Vulture - Kirkus Reviews "Earnest and engaging." --The New Yorker "Among the most profound and dazzling debuts I've ever read." --Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir An essay collection from culture critic...
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  • The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form by Baker, Soren
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    Soren Baker

    The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form

    Journalist Soren Baker'sThe History of Gangster Rap takes a deep dive into this fascinating music subgenre. Foreword by Xzibit Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the culture that created this revolutionary music. From still-swirling conspiracy...
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  • 50 Laws of Music Production & Engineering: Get the most from your home recording and production by Dofat, Tony M.
    Tony M. Dofat

    50 Laws of Music Production & Engineering: Get the most from your home recording and production

    50 Laws(R) Book Series containing the top 50 things you should know about the specific topic. Volume I references Music Production and Audio Engineering written by Award winning Veteran Producer Tony Dofat with over 25 years of experience and knowledge.Author: Tony M. DofatISBN-10: 0578190699ISBN-13:...
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  • Hip-Hop Theology: Only the Lover Raps by Atcho, Claude
    Claude Atcho

    Hip-Hop Theology: Only the Lover Raps

    Hip-hop has crossed boundaries in recent years--from comic books (Into the Spiderverse) to Broadway (Hamilton). For over fifty years, hip-hop has grown as a cultural icon. There's no escaping it. How does hip-hop fit within Christianity? Can hip-hop beats be sanctified? Can perverse lyrics...
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  • Hip-Hop Theology: Only the Lover Raps by Atcho, Claude
    Claude Atcho

    Hip-Hop Theology: Only the Lover Raps

    Hip-hop has crossed boundaries in recent years--from comic books (Into the Spiderverse) to Broadway (Hamilton). For over fifty years, hip-hop has grown as a cultural icon. There's no escaping it. How does hip-hop fit within Christianity? Can hip-hop beats be sanctified? Can perverse lyrics...
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  • Birth of a Culture by Grandmaster Flash
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    Grandmaster Flash

    Birth of a Culture

    Birth of a Culture tells the chronological and comprehensive origin of hip hop.Over fifty years ago Joseph Saddler, a cool, nerdy, self-proclaimed kid scientist from the Bronx decided to create a new sound in American music. He grew up to become Grandmaster Flash and...
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  • Married To Marijuana: My Love Affair With Weed And Hip Hop by Berry, Dj Jason
    Dj Jason Berry

    Married To Marijuana: My Love Affair With Weed And Hip Hop

    DJ Jason Berry's rise in the inner echelon of Hip Hop superstars and his arrival as DJ Jason "Big Kush" BerryAuthor: Dj Jason BerryISBN-10: 1944082360ISBN-13: 9781944082369Publisher: Over the Edge BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2017Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
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  • Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 1 by Weis, Ellen R.
    Ellen R. Weis

    Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground: Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 1

    A study of rap in Egypt as a multi-layered form of expression This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to...
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  • Blame It on The music by Thompson, Eric E., Jr.
    Eric E. Jr. Thompson

    Blame It on The music

    The world doesn't give Hip-Hop music its proper respect. Hip-Hop/Rap is a very effective coping mechanism. The music is usually the subject of controversy and negativity. It is much more than entertainment, it's a tool of persuasion and influence. Blame is what many of...
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  • Feud: The Birth, Growth, and Fall of Gangsta Rap by Lifecaps
    Lifecaps

    Feud: The Birth, Growth, and Fall of Gangsta Rap

    Back in the 1970s on the poverty stricken streets of the Bronx, New York, amongst the African-American community there was a rise in the popularity of the 'block party'. People like the Ghetto Brothers would plug their amps between the lamp posts. These parties...
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  • Cape Verde, Let's Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal by Pardue, Derek
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    Derek Pardue

    Cape Verde, Let's Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal

    Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language...
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  • Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality by Rollefson, J. Griffith
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    J. Griffith Rollefson

    Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

    Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been...
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  • Beyoncé Running the World: The Biography by Pointer, Anna
    Anna Pointer

    Beyoncé Running the World: The Biography

    Author: Anna PointerISBN-10: 1473607353ISBN-13: 9781473607354Publisher: Coronet Books (GB)Language: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2015Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d
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  • 16 Bars at a Time: The Hook Book by Ehrnsberger, Russell
    Russell Ehrnsberger

    16 Bars at a Time: The Hook Book

    16 Bars at a Time: The Hook Bookby RU$$ELL Most rappers can write a verse.Not everyone can write a hook that people remember.That's the difference between a track that gets skipped... and a track that gets replayed. 16 Bars at a Time: The Hook...
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