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In Hip Hop Time - Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal (Hardcover)
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In Hip Hop Time - Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal (Hardcover)
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In the twenty-first century, Senegalese hip hop-"Rap Galsen"-has
reverberated throughout the world as an exemplar of hip hop
resistance in its mobilization against government corruption during
a series of tumultuous presidential elections. Yet Senegalese hip
hop's story goes beyond resistance; it is a story of globalization,
of diasporic movement and memory, of imagined African pasts and
contemporary African realities, and of urbanization and the
banality of socio-economic struggle. At particular moments in Rap
Galsen's history, origin narratives linked hip hop to a
mythologized Africa through the sounds of indigenous oralities. At
other times, contrasting narratives highlighted hip hop's equally
mythologized roots in the postindustrial U.S. inner city and
African American experience. As Senegalese youth engage these
globally circulating narratives, hip hop performance and its
stories negotiate their place in a rapidly changing world. In Hip
Hop Time explores this relationship between popular music and
social change, framing Senegalese hip hop as a musical movement
deeply tied to both indigenous performance practices and changing
social norms in urban Africa. Author Catherine Appert takes us from
Senegalese hip hop's beginnings among cosmopolitan youth in Dakar's
affluent neighborhoods in the 1980s, to its spread throughout the
city's ghettoized working class neighborhoods in the mid- to
late-'90s, and into the present day, where political activism and
hip hop musicality vie for position in local and global arenas. An
ethnography of the inextricability of musical and social meaning in
hip hop practice, In Hip Hop Time charts new intellectual territory
in the scholarship of African and global hip hop.
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