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Hip Hop at Europe's Edge - Music, Agency, and Social Change (Paperback)
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Hip Hop at Europe's Edge - Music, Agency, and Social Change (Paperback)
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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, but it has often been
stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection
to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally
strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central
and Eastern Europe has gradually developed unique, local
trajectories, a number of which are showcased in this volume. On
the one hand, hip hop functions as a marker of Western
cosmopolitanism and democratic ideology, but as the contributors
show, it is also a malleable genre that has been infused with so
much local identity that it has lost most of its previous
associations with "the West" in the experiences of local musicians,
audiences, and producers. Contextualizing hip hop through the prism
of local experiences and regional musical expressions, these
valuable case studies reveal the broad spectrum of its impact on
popular culture and youth identity in the post-Soviet world.
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