Preface / Jon Michael Spencer -- Introduction / Jon Michael Spencer -- Performance, protest, and prophecy in the culture of hip-hop / Michael Eric Dyson -- The three waves of contemporary rap music / Ronald Jemal Stephens -- Nation of Islam ideology in the rap of Public Enemy / William Eric Perkins -- Theology in the hip-hop of Public Enemy and Kool Moe Dee / Angela Spence Nelson -- The rapper as shaman for a band of dancers of the spirit / Philip M. Royster -- A feminist analysis of the defenses of obscene rap lyrics / Sonja Peterson-Lewis -- 125th Street rap session / C. Eric Lincoln.
