Publication: Cambridge Companion to Global Rap

The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap
Edited by Richard Bramwell, Alex de Lacey
Cambridge University Press
2025

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009099738

The Companion, co-edited by Richard Bramwell and Alex de Lacey, offers an array of perspectives on rap music and culture, from the fields of sociology, musicology, psychology, criminology, linguistics, literary studies, and education, unpacking how this versatile form of oral communication has permeated nearly every aspect of daily life. Taking a decidedly global perspective, these accounts draw from practice in Australia, China, France, Germany, Jamaica, India, and Tanzania, exploring how rap music has taken hold in particular contexts, and what this can tell us about the medium itself and the environments in which it has been repurposed.

Contributors for the volume are as follows: Paroma Ghose, J. Griffith Rollefson, Karim Hammou, Marie Sonnette-Manouguian, Max Ryynänen, Petteri Enroth, Marvin Sparks, Akeem Sule, Becky Inkster, Lambros Fatsis, Dianne Rodger, Patrick Turner, Sina A. Nitzsche, Laura i. k. Spilker, Jabari Evans, Malcolm James, Elloit Cardozo, Jaspal Naveel Singh and Sheng Zou.