Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of PostmodernismSpectacular Vernaculars examines hip hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern theory and practice, using the politics of reception as its primary rhetorical ground. Hip hop culture in general, and rap music in particular, present model sites for such an inquiry, since they enact both postmodern modes of production the appropriation of tropes, technologies, and material culture and a potential means of resistance to