The examination of CBUM/Hip-Hop as a global-force factors highly in this course. A wide range of topics is presented, useful in preparation for written essays, philosophical flexibility and assessment.

This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. Approached with both the encyclopedic fluency of an obsessive fan and the unique expertise of an innovative participant.

Expressive culture has always been an important part of the social, political, and economic lives of Indigenous people. More recently, Indigenous people have blended expressive cultures with hip hop culture, creating new sounds, aesthetics, movements, and ways of being Indigenous.

Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how their understandings of the "soul" revolve around narratives of justice, liberation, and spiritual redemption.

Islam has been a part of hip-hop culture since it sprang from New York’s street culture in the 1970s. Today hip-hop has evolved into a truly global artform with a diversity of Muslim Islamic discourses expressed.

Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with reception history, this book reclaims queer involvement in hip hop by tracing the genre's beginnings within Black and Latinx queer music-making practices and spaces, demonstrating that queer and trans rappers draw on Ballroom and other cultural expressions particular to queer and trans communities of color in their work in order to articulate their subject positions.

Traces Moroccan hip hop's trajectory from sidewalk cyphers and bedroom studios to royal commendations and international festivals.