Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Sheila Whiteley - Music, Space and Place, Andy Bennett - Rap and Hip Hop: Community and Cultural Identity, Sheila Whiteley - Musical Production and the Politics of Desire, Stan Hawkins -PART 1. Music, Space and Place (1. The musical construction of the diaspora: the case of reggae and Rastafari, Sarah Daynes - 2. Who is the "other" in the Balkans? Local ethnic music as a different source of identities in Bulgaria, Claire Levy - 3. "Power-geometry" in motion: space, place and gender in the lyra music of Crete, Kevin Dawe - 4. Interrogating the production of sound and place: the Bristol phenomenon, from Lunatic Fringe to worldwide Massive, Peter Webb), PART 2. Rap and Hip Hop: Community and Cultural Identity (5. The emergence of rap Cubano: an historical perspective, Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Reebee Garofalo, 6. Doinʹ damage in my native language: the use of "resistance vernaculars" in hip hop in Europe and Aotearoa/New Zealand, Tony Mitchell - 7. Rappʹ inʹ the Cape: style and memory, power in community, Lee Watkins), PART 3. Musical Production and the Politics of Desire (8. Positioning the producer: gender divisions in creative labour and value, Emma Mayhew - 9. "Believe": vocoders, digital female identity and camp, Kay Dickinson - 10. On performativity and production in Madonnaʹs "Music", Stan Hawkins - 11. ʹHeʹs Got the Power: the politics of production in girl ground music, Jacqueline Warwick.)