Nicole Hodges Persley is Associate Professor of American Studies and African & African American Studies at The University of Kansas.

Hodges Persley's passion for Hip Hop as a cultural aesthetic and methodology is second only to the fascinating case studies she analyzes. Like no other scholar before her, her multimodal engagement of Hip Hop pushes the field of theater studies and race to new heights.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionLicensed to Ill: Alternative White Masculinities in Danny Hoch’s Jails, Hospitals and Hip-hop and Matt Sax’s Clay Empire State of Mind: Remixes of the Hip-Hop American Dream in Nikki S. Lee’s The Hip-Hop Project and Sarah Jones’s Bridge & Tunnel One Nation Under a Groove: (Re)Membering Hip-Hop Dance in Jonzi D’s TAG and Rennie Harris’s Rome & Jewels Musical Mash-Ups of Americanness: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and Matt Sax’s Venice The Ghosting of American History: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical Conclusion: Arrested Developments: New Arrangements of Identity in Hip-Hop PerformanceNotes

Nicole Hodges Persley is Associate Professor of American Studies and African & African American Studies at The University of Kansas.

Hodges Persley's passion for Hip Hop as a cultural aesthetic and methodology is second only to the fascinating case studies she analyzes. Like no other scholar before her, her multimodal engagement of Hip Hop pushes the field of theater studies and race to new heights.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionLicensed to Ill: Alternative White Masculinities in Danny Hoch’s Jails, Hospitals and Hip-hop and Matt Sax’s Clay Empire State of Mind: Remixes of the Hip-Hop American Dream in Nikki S. Lee’s The Hip-Hop Project and Sarah Jones’s Bridge & Tunnel One Nation Under a Groove: (Re)Membering Hip-Hop Dance in Jonzi D’s TAG and Rennie Harris’s Rome & Jewels Musical Mash-Ups of Americanness: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and Matt Sax’s Venice The Ghosting of American History: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical Conclusion: Arrested Developments: New Arrangements of Identity in Hip-Hop PerformanceNotes

Nicole Hodges Persley is Associate Professor of American Studies and African & African American Studies at The University of Kansas.

Hodges Persley's passion for Hip Hop as a cultural aesthetic and methodology is second only to the fascinating case studies she analyzes. Like no other scholar before her, her multimodal engagement of Hip Hop pushes the field of theater studies and race to new heights.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionLicensed to Ill: Alternative White Masculinities in Danny Hoch’s Jails, Hospitals and Hip-hop and Matt Sax’s Clay Empire State of Mind: Remixes of the Hip-Hop American Dream in Nikki S. Lee’s The Hip-Hop Project and Sarah Jones’s Bridge & Tunnel One Nation Under a Groove: (Re)Membering Hip-Hop Dance in Jonzi D’s TAG and Rennie Harris’s Rome & Jewels Musical Mash-Ups of Americanness: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights and Matt Sax’s Venice The Ghosting of American History: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical Conclusion: Arrested Developments: New Arrangements of Identity in Hip-Hop PerformanceNotes