Introduction
Chapter 1. Tending the Conscious Hip Hop Family
Chapter 2. Hip Hop Esoterics: Energy and Consciousness
Chapter 3. From Periphrasis to Personal Development: A Cultural Biography of a Hip Hop Poet and Teacher
Chapter 4. ‘Life-Bars’ For Grime Prevention
Chapter 5. White Boy Hip Hop Suite: Hip Hop Theatre and the Colouring of Culture Conclusion
Method Coda
Biography
Patrick Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bath-Spa University, UK.
Hip Hop versus Rap gets at the heart of the matter, the debate on authenticity of one of the most important global art forms in pop culture. The reader is swept up in the rapid flows from the US to the UK and back again. Consciousness, hardcore, sell-out, one luv? Patrick Turner mixes extensive fieldnote anecdotes and interviews with serious social theory in a remarkable performance of text and a welcome contribution to cultural studies.
Derek Pardue, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Brazilian Studies, Aarhus University
