Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia

"Hip Hop aesthetics, politics, and education in Australia come alive in this sweeping survey of practices, methods, and voices, including First Nations and other marginalised artists and scholars. An inspired, vital contribution to the literature!"

-Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

"An antidote to one-size-fits-all descriptions of Hip Hop in Australia. It's refreshing, real, challenging and inspiring. Academics and Hip Hoppers share stories from across this great southern land, never scared to ask tough questions, never shying away from the richness and complexity of those who love, live and are Hip Hop."

-Morganics (MetaBass'n'Breath) veteran Australian Hip Hop artist.

"Much more than a set of compelling essays about Australian Hip Hop, Represent speaks with insight and authority to both the emergence and development of a discrete field of studies, and to urgent contemporary debates about what it is to be in, and to make culture in, Australia."

-Ian Maxwell, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney.