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24 Bars to Kill - Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins (Hardcover)
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24 Bars to Kill - Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins (Hardcover)
Series: Dance and Performance Studies
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The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop,
"ghetto" or "gangsta" music has much in common with its
corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life
on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational
"rags-to-riches" narratives. Contrary to depictions of an
ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives
voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion
experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a
fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the
subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from
widespread dissatisfaction and malaise.
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