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Lusophone hip-hop : 'who we are' and ẁhere we are' : identity, urban culture and belonging

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Lusophone hip-hop : 'who we are' and ẁhere we are' : identity, urban culture and belonging / edited by Rosana Martins and Massimo Canevacci.

Publication

Canon Pyon : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2018.
©2018

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xx, 295 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book brings multiple sites of lusophony together, and illuminates how mobile configurations of people, technologies and hip-hop creativities are best understood as compositions of ubiquitous identities, dispersed communities and syncretic networks. Significantly, the chapters highlight identity narratives that clash with the city, yet which play an important part in its reconstruction and resignification. Occupying public space, creative expressions of young people provide critiques of the social order, mainstream media and criminalization of fringe neighbourhoods. In this way, hip-hop has become a political instrument of an Ì' that is excluded and marginalized. Its growth has led to a global movement incorporating local forms such as traditional musical arrangements and native languages. Its messages educate youths about citizenship, addressing their reality of racial discrimination and oppression. At the same time, hip-hop continues to innovate at the street level, constantly rejecting and challenging a consumer culture that seeks to co-opt it. The pillars of hip-hop - rapping, DJing, break-dancing, graffiti, and now political organization - are considered across three continents, in a collection that seeks to provide more nuanced characterizations of contemporary relationships between lusophone countries allowing dialogue about inter/intra, colonial/racial contradictions and their impact on power structures. Lusophone Hip-hop offers fascinatingly diverse perspectives on rich source material little-known to readers more familiar with hip-hop in African American contexts.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

Sc E 18-1113

ISBN

9781907774126
1907774122

OCLC

1030215786

Title

Lusophone hip-hop : 'who we are' and ẁhere we are' : identity, urban culture and belonging / edited by Rosana Martins and Massimo Canevacci.

Publisher

Canon Pyon : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2018.

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text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Martins, Rosana, editor.

Canevacci, Massimo, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-1113

JME 18-226

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