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Women rapping revolution : hip hop and community building in Detroit
- Title
- Women rapping revolution : hip hop and community building in Detroit / Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay ; forewords by Piper Carter and Mahogany Jones.
- Author
- Farrugia, Rebekah
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxxiii, 212 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Detroit is a city that has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women in Detroit's hip hop underground have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit's ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the women-centered hip hop collective The Foundation, Women Rapping Revolution argues that the hip hop underground is a crucial site where Black women shape subjectivity and claim self-care as a principle of community organizing. Through interviews and sustained critical engagement with artists and activists, this study also articulates the substantial role of cultural production in social, racial, and economic justice efforts"--
- Series Statement
- California series in hip hop studies ; 1
- Uniform Title
- California series in hip hop studies ; 1.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : intersections of Detroit, women, and hip hop -- Detroit hip hop and the rise of the Foundation -- Hip hop sounds and sensibilities in post-bankruptcy Detroit -- Negotiating genderqueer identity formation -- Vulnerable mavericks wreck rap's conventions -- "Legendary," environmental justice, and collaborative cultural production -- Hip hop activism in action -- Conclusion : women, hip hop, and cultural organizing.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-896
- ISBN
- 9780520305311
- 0520305310
- 9780520305328
- 0520305329
- LCCN
- 2020004029
- OCLC
- 1119584483
- Author
- Farrugia, Rebekah, author.
- Title
- Women rapping revolution : hip hop and community building in Detroit / Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay ; forewords by Piper Carter and Mahogany Jones.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- California series in hip hop studies ; 1California series in hip hop studies ; 1.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: OAKLAND UNIVERSITY. NEW SERIES.
- Added Author
- Hay, Kellie D., 1965- author.Carter, Piper, writer of foreword.Jones, Mahogany, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-896JNE 21-4