Hip-hop as dusty foot philosophy : engaging locality / Alastair Pennycook and Tony Mitchell -- Language and the three spheres of hip-hop / Jannis Androutsopoulos -- Conversational sampling, race trafficking, and the invocation of the "gueto" in Brazilian hip-hop / Jennifer Roth-Gordon -- 'You shouldn't be rappin, you should be skateboardin the x-games' : the co-construction of whiteness in an MC battle / Cecelia Cutler -- From DA bomb to Bomba : global hip hop nation language in Tanzania / Christina Higgins -- 'So i choose to do am Naija style' : hip-hop, language and postcolonial identities / T. Omoniyi -- 'Still reppin por mi gente' : the transformative power of language mixing in Quebec hip-hop / Mela Sarkar -- 'Respect for da chopstick hip hop ': the politics, poetics, and pedagogy of cantonese verbal art in Hong Kong / Angel Lin -- Rhyme and the reinterpretation of hip hop in Japan / Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis -- 'That's all concept; it's nothing real' : reality and lyrical meaning in rap -- Michael Newman -- Creating 'an empire within an empire' : critical hip hop language pedagogies and the role of sociolinguistics / H. Samy Alim -- Takin hip-hop to a whole nother level : metissage, affect and pedagogy in a global hip-hop nation / Awad Ibrahim.

Este libro captura el espíritu creativo y revolucionario de la cultura del Hip-Hop. Es el enlace entre diferentes países que exploran la cultura de éste movimiento, su lenguaje político que identifica a la juventud, prestando especial atención al proceso de globalización y localización.