• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Voices from the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production
• “All Aboard the Night Train”: Flow, Layering, and Rupture in Postindustrial New York
• Soul Sonic Forces: Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music
• Prophets of Rage: Rap Music and the Politics of Black Cultural Expression
• Bad Sistahs: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in rap Music
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Background Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
