books.google.com - This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically. Whereas a great deal of popular music scholarship dismisses music analysis as irrelevant or of limited value, the present book argues that it can be crucial to cultural theory. It is unique for bringing together perspectives...http://books.google.com/books/about/Rap_Music_and_the_Poetics_of_Identity.html?id=Gg8UiSodjz8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRap Music and the Poetics of Identity