Rap music was born in America in the early 1980s. Over the last
decade it has not only grown in popularity within the United
States, with rap music soaring to the top of the music charts, but
it has also influenced other cultures around the world. Black,
Blanc, Beur is about the emergence and growing notoriety of rap
music and hip-hop culture in the French-speaking world (France,
Quebec, and Western Africa). It provides an introduction to many
forms of expression of hip-hop cultures (rap music, hip-hop dance,
and graffiti/tagging). Since its arrival in France, rap music
experienced immediate and ever-growing success, going from an
underground sound to becoming the second largest market in the
world after the United States. Just as American rap crossed
borders, French rap influenced artists in the rest of the
Francophone world. In addition to a foreword by Adam Krims, a noted
rap authority, this volume has contributions by some of the most
renowned hip-hop scholars on both sides of the Atlantic and
addresses hip-hop from the perspective of various disciplines:
African studies, anthropology, cultural studies, ethnology, French
and Francophone studies, history, linguistics, musicology,
psychology, and sociology. Contributors discuss the history of
French rap music from its origin to the present, the various
artists and their groups, stage performances of the rap groups in
Paris, Marseilles, the art of graffiti, and the French public's
perceptions of rap music. Each chapter is equipped with a short
bibliography. This is the first book on the subject of French rap
music and hip-hop culture in English. A wonderful resource for
scholars and students of African, French and pop culture,
ethnomusicology, and for the general public interested in rap music
and the hip-hop culture.
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