Sampling, Biting, and the Postmodern Subversion of Hip Hop

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Never Let an MC Steal Your Rhyme’: The Aesthetics and Values of Hip Hop Culture

Chapter 3 ‘Pure Treason, I’ll Tell You Why’: The Erasure of Hip Hop Culture by Rap Music and Postmodern Hip Hop Studies

Chapter 4 ‘Sounding Black’: Theorizing Blackness in Justin Adams Burton’s Posthuman Rap

Chapter 5 ‘The Fifth Element’: Knowledge, or Hip Hop’s Struggle Against Post-Rap Subversion

Chapter 6 ‘Make Something Original’: Hip Hop Sampling from the ‘Golden Era’ to the Wu-Tang Clan