| Preface: Getting Hip |
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| Introduction: What Is Hip? Superficial Reflections on America |
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1 In the Beginning There Was Rhythm: Slavery, Minstrelsy and the Blues |
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2 The O.G:s: Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman |
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3 My Black/White Roots: Jazz, the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance |
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4 Would a Hipster Hit a Lady? Pulp Fiction, Film Noir and Gangsta Rap |
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5 The Golden Age of Hip, Part 1: Bebop, Cool Jazz and the Cold War |
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6 The Golden Age of Hip, Part 2: The Beats |
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7 The Tricksters: Signifying Monkeys and Other Hip Engines of Progress |
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8 Hip Has Three Fingers: The Miseducation of Bugs Bunny |
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9 The World Is a Ghetto: Blacks, Jews and Blues |
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| 10 Criminally Hip: Outlaws, Gangsters, Players, Hustlers |
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| 11 Where the Ladies At? Rebel Girls, Riot Grrrls and the Revenge on the Mother |
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| 12 Behind the Music: The Drug Connection |
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| 13 "It's Like Punk Rock, But a Car": Hip Sells Out |
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| 14 Do Geeks Dream of HTML Sheep? A Digressive Journey Through Digital Hip |
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| 15 Everybody's Hip: Superficial Reflections on the White Caucasian |
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| Notes |
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| Photo Credits |
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| Index |
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