Hip Hop at Europe's Edge: Music, Agency, and Social Change - Paperbackby Adriana N. Helbig (Editor), Milosz Miszczynski (Editor), Adriana N. Helbig (Contribution by) Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region,