The Vinyl Ain't Final

Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley Introduction by Dipannita Basu and Sidney Lemelle SIDE ONE: RAP AND HIP HOP IN THE US 1. For the People, TRIBUTE, and REDBONE. by Umar Bin Hassan 2. A Rap Thing, On Rapping Rap. and For Mario: Homeland and Hip Hop, by Mumia Abu-Jamal 3. Hip Hop: As a Culture and Generation by Dipannita Basu 4. Nobody Knows My Name and an interview with the Director Rachel Raimist: A Female Hip Hop Film Maker by Dipannita Basu and Laura Harris 5. From Azeem to Zion-I: The Evolution of Global Consciousness in Bay Area Hip Hop by Eric K. Arnold 6. Head Rush: Hip Hop and a Hawaiian Nation On the Rise. by Adria L. Imada 7. War At 33 1/3: Culture and Politics Across the Afro-Asian Atlantic. by Sohail Daulatzai SIDE TWO: RAP AND HIP HOP GOES GLOBAL 8. Deathening Silence: The Terms of (Non) Political Commentary Rap by John Hutnyk 9. 'Keeping it Real in a Different Hood: African-Americanization and Hip Hop in Germany by Tim Brown 10. Africa on Their Mind: Rap, Blackness and Citizenship in France by Veronique Helenon 11. Cuban Hip Hop: Underground Revolution by Annelise Wunderlich 12. Between Our Islands We Dance: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora by April K. Henderson 13. Negotiating Ethnicity and Authenticity in Tokyos Club Harlem by Rhiannon Fink 14. Globalization and Gangster Rap: Hip Hop in the Post Apartheid City by Zine Magubane 15. 'Ni Wapi Tunakwenda: Hip Hop Culture and The Children of Arusha by Sidney J.Lemelle Notes About the Contributors Index