This chapter draws attention to the structuring role of the spirit of competition in the rap genre. It demonstrates that the active engagement with the audience, prompted by intertextual references and similes, is an indirect expression of collective participation and call-and-response insofar as the dialogical character of rap lyrics activates the listener’s shared knowledge, thus transforming them into a collective performance.
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Diallo, D. (2019). Intertextuality in Rap Lyrics. In Pop Music, Culture, and Identity (Vol. Part F1528, pp. 85–102). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25377-6_6
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