Callaloo (Finally) Does Hip-Hop!

*Cover Art by Krista Franklin

After much delay (almost a decade) Callaloo, one of the leading journals of Black Arts & Letters, has finally published its special issue on Hip-Hop. Below is a trunacted table of contents.


CALLALOO
Volume 29, Number 3, Summer 2006
Special Issue: Hip-Hop Music and Culture


CONTENTS

Introduction

Heath, R. Scott.
Hip_Hop Now: An Introduction


Literary and Cultural Criticism

Michael S. Collins
Biggie Envy and the Gangsta Sublime

Scott Heath
True Heads: Historicizing the Hip_Hop "Nation" in Context

Wayne Marshall
Giving up Hip-Hop's Firstborn: A Quest for the Real after the Death of Sampling

Chicano Rap Roots: Black-Brown Cultural Exchange and the Making of a Genre

Edward Pavlic
Rap, Soul, and the Vortex at 33.3 rpm:
Hip-Hop's Implements and African American Modernisms

James Peterson
"Dead Prezence": Money and Mortal Themes in Hip Hop Culture


Visual Art

Iona Rozeal Brown


Interviews and Conversations

H. Samy Alim and Hi-Tek
"The Natti Ain't No Punk City": Emic Views of Hip Hop Cultures

An Interview with Moya Bailey
An Interview with Joan Morgan
An Interview with Gwendolyn D. Pough
(by Faedra Chatard Carpenter)

"Excursions": A Conversation with Yusef Komunyakaa

An Interview with Michael Eric Dyson (w/ Meta Jones)

The Fluoroscope of Brooklyn Hip Hop: Talib Kweli in Conversation (w/James Spady)

An Interview with Jean Grae
An Interview with Touré (by Robert Walsh)


A Special Section with Portfolio Art and Interview

Black on Both Sides: A Conversation with iona rozeal brown