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Break and Flow

Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas
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Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop's US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class violence. Despite the geographic and linguistic borders that separate these artists, Charlie Hankin finds in their music and lyrics a common understanding of hip hop's capacity to intervene in the public sphere and a shared poetics of neighbourhood, nation, and transatlantic yearnings. Situated at the critical intersection of sound studies and Afro-diasporic poetics, Break and Flow draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Hankin illuminates how new media is used to produce and distribute knowledge in the Global South, refining our understanding of poetry and popular music at the turn of the millennium.
Charlie D. Hankin is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Pitzer College.
Introduction 1. Yearning: "Nan lot dimansyon" 2. Raplove: "Es lo que hay" 3. Uprooting: "Que importa si sonamos americano hermano" 4. Scale: "Rap e meu lugar" 5. Writing: "Enraizados da letra" 6. Violence: "Sou fey blanch" Epilogue: En-/un-gendering Hip Hop
"Break and Flow is the product of great learning and greater passion. It draws on Hankin's extensive fieldwork in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti to showcase the poetic innovation and political impact of rap artists responding to colonial legacies, present-day political circumstances, and their own aesthetic imperatives. Hankin's book exercises close analysis (by eye and by ear), critical theory, and a keen historical sensibility to produce a work of scholarship that celebrates three underexplored sites of hip-hop artistry." - Adam Bradley, UCLA, author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
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