| Series |
Music/culture
Music/culture. ^A390481
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| Contents |
Postcolonial popular music in France: rap music and hip-hop culture in the 1980s and 1990s / André J.M. Prévos -- Islamic hip-hop vs. Islamophobia: Aki Nawaz, Natacha Atlas, Akhenaton / Ted Swedenburg -- Urban breakbeat culture: repercussions of hip-hop in the United Kingdom / David Hesmondhalgh & Caspar Melville -- Rap in Germany: the birth of a genre / Mark Pennay -- Rap in Bulgaria: between fashion and reality / Claire Levy -- Rap in the low countries: global dichotomies on a national scale / Mir Wermuth -- "We are all Malcolm X!": Negu Gorriak, hip-hop, and the Basque political imaginary / Jacqueline Urla -- Fightin' da Faida: the Italian posses and hip-hop in Italy / Tony Mitchell -- A history of Japanese hip-hop: street dance, club scene, pop market / Ian Condry -- "Who is a dancing hero?": rap, hip-hop, and dance in Korean popular culture / Sarah Morelli -- Sydney stylee: hip-hop down under comin' up / Ian Maxwell -- Kia Kaha! (Be strong!): Maori and Pacific Islander hip-hop in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Tony Mitchell -- Rap in Canada: bilingual and multicultural / Roger Chamberland. |
| Abstract |
The thirteen essays in this book explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Anglophone and Francophone Canada, Japan and Australia within their social, cultural and ethnic contexts. Countering the prevailing colonialist view that global hip hop is an exotic and derivative outgrowth of an African-American-owned idiom subject to assessment in terms of American norms and standards, this book shows how international hip hop scenes, like those in France and Australia, developed by first adopting then adapting US models and establishing an increasing hybridity of local linguistic and musical features. The essays reveal diasporic manifestations of international hip hop that are rarely acknowledged in the growing commentary on the genre in the US. In the voices of rappers from around the globe with divergent backgrounds of race, nationality, class and gender, the authors find a consistent rhetoric of opposition and resistance to institutional forms of repression and the construction of a cohesive, historically-based subculture capable of accommodating regional and national diversities. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, discographies, videographies, and index. |
| LCCN | 2001046705 |
| ISBN | 0819565016 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0819565024 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
