The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop (Cambridge Companions to Music)

Cambridge University Press, 2/12/2015
EAN 9781107037465, ISBN10: 1107037468

Hardcover, 370 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

It has been more than thirty-five years since the first commercial recordings of hip-hop music were made. This Companion, written by renowned scholars and industry professionals reflects the passion and scholarly activity occurring in the new generation of hip-hop studies. It covers a diverse range of case studies from Nerdcore hip-hop to instrumental hip-hop to the role of rappers in the Obama campaign and from countries including Senegal, Japan, Germany, Cuba, and the UK. Chapters provide an overview of the 'four elements' of hip-hop - MCing, DJing, break dancing (or breakin'), and graffiti - in addition to key topics such as religion, theatre, film, gender, and politics. Intended for students, scholars, and the most serious of 'hip-hop heads', this collection incorporates methods in studying hip-hop flow, as well as the music analysis of hip-hop and methods from linguistics, political science, gender and film studies to provide exciting new perspectives on this rapidly developing field.

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.