Introduction - Coming to Terms: Rap Music as Radical Postmodernism -- Ch. 1. Gettin' Present as an Art: A Signifyin(g) Hipstory of Hip-hop -- Ch. 2. Postmodernity and the Hip-hop Vernacular -- Ch. 3. The Pulse of the Rhyme Flow: Hip-hop Signifyin(g) and the Politics of Reception -- Ch. 4. History - Spectacle - Resistance -- Ch. 5. "Are You Afraid of the Mix of Black and White?" Hip-hop and the Spectacular Politics of Race
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index
