Welcome to the online version of my PhD dissertation:

"We Rock Long Distance: M.anifest and the Diasporic Media Currents of Transnational Hip-Hop"

Please use the links to the left to view individual chapters. 

Any questions or problems, contact me. 

Also check out the site for the documentary component of We Rock Long Distance. 

All original material created for the purposes of this dissertation (text, photos, audio, and video) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) License. 

Other materials are under copyright by their original owners, and though they are used here 

within the guidelines of Fair Use, they fall outside of the Creative Commons license.