-
- Australia
- Canada
- UK
- USA
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antarctica
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Cayman
- Central African R
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Cocos (Keeling)
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo, The DR
- Congo, Rep of
- Cook Is
- Costa Rica
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Croatia/Hrvatska
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Repu
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican R
- Timor-Leste
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Falklands (Malvinas)
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- French Southern Territories
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guernsey
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Heard and McDonald Is
- Holy See (Vatican City State)
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea, DPR
- Korea, Repub of
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Montenegro
- Macau
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Is
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Micronesia, Federal State of
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Reunion
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Serbia
- St Kitts and Nevis
- Snt Lucia
- Sa Vincent and the Grenadines
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovak R
- Slovenia
- Solomons
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- S Helena
- S Pierre and Miquelon
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Unitd Arab Emirates
- UK
- USA
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Virgin Is, British
- Virgin Is, U.S.
- Wallis and Futuna
- Western Sahara
- Western Samoa
- Yemen
- Yugoslavia
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Gift certificates
- Academic eBooks
- My account
- Help
- Wishlist
- Feedback
- Sign up
The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
From Pieces to Weight
MTV Books 2005; US$ 15.00GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' That's what this book is about--the good times and the bad times. I wrote this book to explain the world I come from. To a lot of people, I may be too young to reflect on life. And they may be right. But I'd be wasting my blessings if I didn't use the attention I'm getting to shed light on the experiences that have caused... more...
The 50th Law
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 15.99A hip hop icon joins forces with the best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power to write a bible for success in life and work living by one simple principle: fear nothing. more...
Global Linguistic Flows
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 49.95Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world ? spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union ? to explore Hip Hop cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. Focusing closely on language,... more...
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 15.99In It's Bigger Than Hip Hop , M. K. Asante, Jr. looks at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world. Asante, a young firebrand poet, professor, filmmaker, and activist who represents this movement,... more...
Jay-Z
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00Jay-Z is one of America's leading rappers and entrepreneurs, as well known for his music as for his business acumen. This text seeks to situate Jay-Z within his musical, intellectual and cultural context for educational study. Thirteen essays address such topics as Jay-Z's relevance to African-American oral history, socially responsible hip... more...
I Mix What I Like!
AK Press 2011; US$ 11.99A manifesto on the journalistic purpose of the hip-hop mixtape. more...
Representing Black Music Culture
Scarecrow Press 2011; US$ 34.99In this collection of essays, interviews, and profiles, William Banfield reflects on his life as an musician and educator, weaving together pieces of cultural criticism that pay homage to artists who have created and sustained Black music for more than forty years. more...
Enter the Babylon System
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 19.00A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation. The 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop?s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of gang life on bullet-ridden US streets for the rising use of... more...
The Little Book of Bling!
Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 2.99It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that BLING! This is a compendium of Hip-Hop culture, covering: Bling do's and don'ts; What's bling bling and what's not; How to talk like a gangsta; Bling icons: Bling proverbs, jokes, and more. more...
The New H.N.I.C.
NYU Press 2003; US$ 70.00When Lauryn Hill stepped forward to accept her fifth Grammy Award in 1999, she paused as she collected the last trophy, and seeming somewhat startled said, “This is crazy, ‘cause this is hip hop music.’“ Hill’s astonishment at receiving mainstream acclaim for music once deemed insignificant testifies to the explosion of... more...
