Hip-Hop Within and Without the Academy explores why hip-hop has become such a meaningful musical genre for so many musicians, artists, and fans around the world

Hip-hop's historical nature as a mouthpiece for marginalized peoples provides a platform for its universal-appeal and contemporary relevancy. Moreover, hip-hop

A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.

Discusses the Harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in the Afro-American form of expression.

Viewing the plurality of creativity in music as being of paramount importance to the field of music education, The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music