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This long-awaited volume is the first to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across eleven chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip-Hop in Australia.

Introduction: Representing Hip Hop in Australia
Section 1: Hip Hop Histories, Eras and Evolutions
1. Graffiti and Hip Hop in Australia: An Interview with Matthew MISTERY Peet
2. From Gen X to Gen Y: Hip-Hop Life-Stories in Australia
3. Revisiting Nationalism and Multiculturalism in So-called Australian Hip Hop

Section 2: Hip Hop Activism and Politics
4. Hip Hop, Activism and Other Stories (Herstory)
5. ‘Hip Hop Crim’ - A Discourse Analysis of Conscious First Nations Hip Hop Contesting Australia's Criminal Justice System
6. We Need to Infiltrate Those Spaces: Space-Reclaiming through Counternarratives in First Nations Hip-Hop in Sydney
7. ‘Hip-Hop Fam’ or a Larrikin Brand? Urthboy and the Bind of the Conscious MC

Section 3: Hip Hop Performance Practices and Place
8. Hip Hop Dance Jams and Cyphers
9. Pirlapakarnu Cypher: Beyond Representing Place to Warlpiri Embodiments of Country in Milpirri Hip Hop
10. ‘Who is this Imposter?’: Women in Australian Underground Hip Hop
11. “In a Good Way There’s No BEEF, but the Bad Thing is There’s No BEEF”: Tensions and Changing Cultural Politics in Sydney’s Breaking Scene.