Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Voices from the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production 2. "All Aboard the Night Train": Flow, Layering, and Rupture in Postindustrial New York 3. Soul Sonic Forces: Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music 4. Prophets of Rage: Rap Music and the Politics of Black Cultural Expression 5. Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music Epilogue Notes Background Sources Bibliography Index