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 Richard Hofstadter Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University. He has organized public history programs throughout the New York, Philadelphia, and Paris (France) areas. He received his B.A. (magna cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia University. Meghelli's research interests include U.S. and African-American
cultural and political history, post-colonial French studies, and African diasporic cultures in the Atlantic and Francophone worlds.
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