Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit

Detroit, Michigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women—centered hip hop collective, Women Rapping Revolution argues that the hip hop underground is a crucia...