is the author of the first and only trilogy of
books on Hip Hop Music and Culture: Nation
Conscious Rap: The Hip Hop Vision (1991),
Twisted Tales in the Hip Hop Streets of Philly
(1995) and Street Conscious Rap (1999),
and editor of 360 Degreez of Sonia Sanchez:
Hip Hop, Narrativity, Iqhawe and Public Spaces
of Being (2000). His works have appeared
in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals,
radio, television and film and he is the recipient
of many awards including, The American Book Award
and the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s
Meritorious Award.
is an Assistant Professor in UCLA’s Department
of Anthropology and is author of Roc the Mic
Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture (Routledge,
2006), You Know My Steez: An Ethnographic
and Sociolinguistic Study of Styleshifting in
a Black American Speech Community (Duke,
2004), and co-author of Street Conscious Rap
(Black History Museum, 1999). His research interests
include language and race, global Hip Hop Culture,
and the street language, culture, and music of
the Muslim world (from Chicago to Cairo).
is a doctoral candidate in History at Columbia
University, and his work has been published in
The Black Arts Quarterly, Proud Flesh,
and Newsletter of the Institute of African Studies
at Columbia University. He has organized public
history programs throughout the New York and Philadelphia
areas, as well as served as a consultant to the
Museum of the City of New York for their exhibition,
“Black Style Now.” Meghelli’s
research interests include the history and globalization/glocalization
of Hip Hop culture, and immigration, race, and
identity in France.
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