Mark Katz is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. He is co-editor of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History. In 2013 he developed the U.S. Department of Statefunded cultural diplomacy program Next Level, serving as its director until 2018. In 2015 Katz was recognized by the Hip-Hop Education Center in its inaugural awards ceremony, and in 2016 he was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association for his contributions to music scholarship.

• Introduction 1: Sample a Look Back2: Boom Bap Diplomacy: Connecting Cultures, Transforming Conflict3: Operating in a Zone of Ambiguity: Tensions and Risks in Hip-Hop Diplomacy4: Building Songs Instead of Missiles: Agency and Subversive Complicity in Hip-Hop Diplomacy5: Build and Destroy: Hip-Hop, U.S. Diplomacy, and Islam Conclusion

Build offers a rare and valuable entry into a project of unprecedented scope in American hip-hop, by providing a view from inside institutions and from American artists

Mark Katz is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. He is co-editor of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History. In 2013 he developed the U.S. Department of Statefunded cultural diplomacy program Next Level, serving as its director until 2018. In 2015 Katz was recognized by the Hip-Hop Education Center in its inaugural awards ceremony, and in 2016 he was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association for his contributions to music scholarship.

• Introduction 1: Sample a Look Back2: Boom Bap Diplomacy: Connecting Cultures, Transforming Conflict3: Operating in a Zone of Ambiguity: Tensions and Risks in Hip-Hop Diplomacy4: Building Songs Instead of Missiles: Agency and Subversive Complicity in Hip-Hop Diplomacy5: Build and Destroy: Hip-Hop, U.S. Diplomacy, and Islam Conclusion

Build offers a rare and valuable entry into a project of unprecedented scope in American hip-hop, by providing a view from inside institutions and from American artists

Mark Katz is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Capturing Sound: How Technology has Changed Music and Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. He is co-editor of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History. In 2013 he developed the U.S. Department of Statefunded cultural diplomacy program Next Level, serving as its director until 2018. In 2015 Katz was recognized by the Hip-Hop Education Center in its inaugural awards ceremony, and in 2016 he was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association for his contributions to music scholarship.

• Introduction 1: Sample a Look Back2: Boom Bap Diplomacy: Connecting Cultures, Transforming Conflict3: Operating in a Zone of Ambiguity: Tensions and Risks in Hip-Hop Diplomacy4: Building Songs Instead of Missiles: Agency and Subversive Complicity in Hip-Hop Diplomacy5: Build and Destroy: Hip-Hop, U.S. Diplomacy, and Islam Conclusion

Build offers a rare and valuable entry into a project of unprecedented scope in American hip-hop, by providing a view from inside institutions and from American artists