Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Hip Hop as Postcolonial Art and Practice 1
5. 1 “J’accuse”: Hip Hop’s Postcolonial Politics in Paris 19
6. 2 Nostalgia “En noir et blanc”: Black Music and Postcoloniality from Sefyu’s Paris to Buddy Bolden’s New Orleans 34
7. 3 Musical (African) Americanization: Strategic Essentialism, Hybridity, and Commerce in Aggro Berlin 55
8. 4 Heiße Waren: Hot Commodities, “Der Neger Bonus,” and the Commercial Authentic 79
9. 5 M.I.A.’s “Terrorist Chic”: Black Atlantic Music and South Asian Postcolonial Politics in London 93
10. 6 Marché Noir: The Hip Hop Hustle in the City of Light 139
11. 7 “Wherever We Go”: UK Hip Hop and the Deformation of Mastery 164
12. 8 “Straight Outta B.C.”: Différance, Defness, and Juice Aleem’s Precolonial Afrofuturist Critique 194
13. Conclusion: Hip Hop Studies and/as Postcolonial Studies 226
14. Notes 245
15. Bibliography 267
16. Discography and Videography 281
17. Index 283