Desi rap :  hip-hop and South Asian America / 
edited by Ajay Nair and Murali Balaji. 
 - Lanham, MD :  Lexington Books,  2008. 
 - xiv, 188 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - 782.421649089/914073 .
<br/><br/>My hip hop life / Vijay Prashad -- Polyvalent voices: ethnic and racialized Desi hip hop / Nitasha Sharma -- Hip-hop agitprop / Ajay Nair -- B-boys and bass girls: sex, style, and mobility in Indian American youth culture / Sunaina Maira -- How hip-hop helped an Indian girl find her way home / Deepti Hajela -- Making Brown like dat: South Asians and hip-hop / Raeshem Chopra Nijhon -- Outcaste / Murali Balaji -- Spoken word / Swapnil Shah -- The disjointed artist / Chee Malabar -- Beats, rhythm, life / D'Lo -- Sounds from a town I love / The1shanti -- Words from the battlefront / Utkarsh Ambudkar -- An ear to the streets and a vibe in the basement / DJ Rekha. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780739127216 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739127217 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780739127223 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0739127225 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780739131367 (electronic) 0739131362 (electronic) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>South Asian Americans--Music--Social aspects.<br/>Rap (Music)--Social aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.421649089/914073