Acknowledgments
Introduction--Coming to Terms: Rap Music as Radical Postmodernism
1. Gettin' Present as an Art: A Signifyin(g) Hipstory of Hip-hop
2. Postmodernity and the Hip-hop Vernacular
3. The Pulse of the Rhyme Flow: Hip-hop Signifyin(g) and the Politics of Reception
4. History--Spectacle--Resistance
5. "Are You Afraid of the Mix of Black and White?" Hip-hop and the Spectacular Politics of Race
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index