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“…Preface / "We're all Asian really" : hiphop's Afro-Asian crossings / "You ain't heard us 'til you seen us live" : the Alter Egos' live alternative to mass market hiphop / Uptown-downtown : hiphop music in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s / Gender dynamics in the film Anne B. …”
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“…Hiphop's critics -- Hiphop causes violence -- Hiphop reflects black dysfunctional ghetto culture -- Hiphop hurts black people -- Hiphop is destroying America's values -- Hiphop is demeans women -- Hiphop's defenders -- Just keeping it real -- Hiphop is not responsible for sexism -- "There are bitches and hoes" -- We're not role models -- Nobody talk about the positive in hiphop -- Mutual denials in the hiphop wars -- Progressive voices, energies, and visions -- Six guiding principles for progressive creativity, consumption, and community in hiphop and beyond.…”
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“…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : another root - hip-hop outside the USA / Postcolonial popular music in France : rap music and hip-hop culture in the 1980s and 1990s / Islamic hip-hop vs. …”
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“…Hip-hop in Europe as a transnational phenomenon : an introduction / Hip-hop and Cyprus : language, motiviation, unity, and division / Mapping the hip-hop transnation : a brief history of hip-hop in Athens, Greece / Forgetting how to swim : a history of Portuguese rap / Hip-hop in Russia : how the cultural form emerged in Russia and established a new philosophy / Breakin' around the bloc : hip-hop in the German Democratic Republic / In search of the "real" Czech hip-hop : the construction of authenticity in Czech rap music / In the global 'hood' : slang and hip-hop in present-day Romania / The language(s) of self-presentation in Hungarian rap lyrics / Merseybeatz : hip-hop in Liverpool…”
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“…The minstrel reprise : hip-hop and the evolution of the Black image in American popular culture -- "Real niggas" : race, ethnicity and the construction of authenticity in hip-hop -- Between God and earth : feminism, machismo, and gender in hip-hop music -- Rebels with a cause : gangstas, militants, media, and the contest for hip-hop -- Locked up : police, the prison industrial complex, Black youth, and social control…”
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“…Introduction : hip-hop, Japan, and cultural globalization -- Yellow b-boys, black culture, and the Elvis effect -- Battling hip-hop samurai -- Genba globalization and locations of power -- Rap fans and consumer culture -- Rhyming in Japanese -- Women rappers and the price of cutismo -- Making money, Japan-style -- Conclusion : lessons of hip-hop globalization…”