The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap

Richard Bramwell is Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University. He is the author of UK Hip Hop, Grime and the City (2015). His research has been published in Popular Music, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Alex de Lacey is Assistant Professor in Popular Music, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He is the author of Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music (2023). His research on rap has appeared in Popular Music, Popular Music History, and Global Hip-Hop Studies.

• List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction Richard Bramwell and Alex de Lacey; Part I. Historical and Cultural Perspectives: 1. Travelling sounds: tracing the global origins of rhythm and poetry Paroma Ghose; 2. A history of sound system and emcee culture Marvin Sparks; Part II. Approaches to Rap: 3. Beats, Rhymes, and Life: connecting the sonic and the social in hip hop music studies J. Griffith Rollefson; 4. 'Listen when I flip the linguistics': linguistic approaches to hip-hop and the case of 2Pac Steven Gilbers; 5. Pioneers, postmodernisms and aesthetic experience: a brief history of aesthetic approaches to rap music Max Ryynänen and Petteri Enroth; 6. The literary singularity of Roots Manuva's Awfully Deep Richard Bramwell; 7. The French (hip-hop) revolution is yet to come: a sociology of rap music in France Karim Hammou and Marie Sonnette-Manouguian; Part III. Applications for Rap: 8. Lords of the mic: live collective performance in grime music Alex de Lacey; 9. Hip-Hop and mental health: perspectives from psychiatry, psychology, public health, and neuroscience Akeem Sule and Becky Inkster; 10. The beat of the gavel: rap, 'race' and criminal injustice Lambros Fatsis; 11. Express yourself: education and wellbeing in Australian applied hip-hop workshops Dianne Rodger; 12. Rap to skool: hip-hop in the classroom Patrick Turner; Part IV. Contexts for Rap: 13. Honoring the honorable: Tanzanian hip-hop artists, awards shows, and the power of popular song Alex Perullo; 14. 'It Will Never Go Away': re-imagining black German identity in 'Ich bin Schwarz' Sina A. Nitzsche and Laura I. K. Spilker; 15. The art of capping: exploring digital cloutchasing strategy of black male youth in Chicago's drill rap scene Jabari Evans; 16. Drill as cultural form: video-music, chromatism, war and the alternative Malcolm James; 17. English rap in India and the fault lines of sociolinguistic politics Elloit Cardozo and Jaspal Naveel Singh; 18. Television and the Janus face of Chinese hip-hop: style, ideology, and precarious syncretization in The Rap of China Sheng Zou.

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