TY - BOOK AU - Nair,Ajay AU - Balaji,Murali TI - Desi rap: hip-hop and South Asian America SN - 9780739127216 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 782.421649089/914073 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Lanham, MD PB - Lexington Books KW - South Asian Americans KW - Music KW - Social aspects KW - Rap (Music) KW - United States N1 - 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 ER -