Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction-Coming to Terms: Rap Music as Radical Postmodernism 1
5. Chapter 1. Gettin' Present as an Art: A Signifyin(g) Hipstory of Hip-hop 25
6. Chapter 2. Postmodernity and the Hip-hop Vernacular 55
7. Chapter 3. The Pulse of the Rhyme Flow: Hip-hop Signifyin(g) and the Politics of Reception 81
8. Chapter 4. History-Spectacle-Resistance 107
9. Chapter 5. "Are You Mraid of the Mix of Black and White?" Hip-hop and the Spectacular Politics of Race 131
10. Notes 157
11. Selected Bibliography 183
12. Index 193