Blog: PopMatters

Can hip-hop can change the world? From the south side of Chicago to the barrios of Caracas and Havana and the sprawling periphery of Sydney, Sujatha Fernandes grapples with questions of global voices and local critiques, and the rage that underlies both. Excerpted from the Introduction: The Making of a Hip Hop Globe (footnotes omitted) from Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation by � Sujatha Fernandes, published September 2011. Copyright � 2011 by Sujatha Fernandes. Reprinted with permission of Verso Books. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission [...]