Introduction, Andrew Ross; Part 1 Histories & Futures; Chapter 1 We Know What Time It Is, George Lipsitz; Chapter 2 Same As It Ever Was, Susan McClary; Chapter 3 Is Anybody Listening? Does Anybody Care?, Lawrence Grossberg; Chapter 4 Excerpt from Altered Spade: Readings in Race-Mutation Theory, Greg Tate; Part 2 Locating Hip Hop; Chapter 5 A Style Nobody Can Deal With, Tricia Rose; Chapter 6 Puerto Rican And Proud, Boyee!, Juan Flores; Chapter 7 The State of Rap, Jeffrey Louis Decker; Chapter 8 Contracting Rap, Tricia Rose; Part 3 The Dance Continuum; Chapter 9 In the Empire of the Beat, Walter Hughes; Chapter 10 Hello, Lady Kier Kirby; Chapter 11 Not a Mutant Turtle, Willi Ninja; Chapter 12 Nobody Wants a Part -Time Mother, Tricia Rose; Chapter 13 Moral Panic, the Media and British Rave Culture, Sarah Thornton; Chapter 14 The Funkification of Rio, George Yudice, Hermano ViannaJr.; Part 4 Rock, Rituals & Rights; Chapter 15 Rah, Rah, Sis-Boom-Bah, Robert Christgau; Chapter 16 Border Crossing in the U.S.A., Donna Gaines; Chapter 17 Highbrow, Lowbrow, Voodoo Aesthetics, Robert Walser; Chapter 18 Smells Like Teen Spirit, Joanne Gottlieb, Gayle Wald;