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Lusophone Hip-hop - `Who we are’ and `Where we are’: Identity, urban culture and belonging. (Hardcover)
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Lusophone Hip-hop - `Who we are’ and `Where we are’: Identity, urban culture and belonging. (Hardcover)
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This book brings multiple sites of lusophony together, and
illuminates how mobile configurations of people, technologies and
hip-hop creativities are best understood as compositions of
ubiquitous identities, dispersed communities and syncretic
networks. Significantly, the chapters highlight identity narratives
that clash with the city, yet which play an important part in its
reconstruction and resignification. Occupying public space,
creative expressions of young people provide critiques of the
social order, mainstream media and criminalization of fringe
neighbourhoods. In this way, hip-hop has become a political
instrument of an `I’ that is excluded and marginalized. Its
growth has led to a global movement incorporating local forms such
as traditional musical arrangements and native languages. Its
messages educate youths about citizenship, addressing their reality
of racial discrimination and oppression. At the same time, hip-hop
continues to innovate at the street level, constantly rejecting and
challenging a consumer culture that seeks to co-opt it. The pillars
of hip-hop – rapping, DJing, break-dancing, graffiti, and now
political organization – are considered across three continents,
in a collection that seeks to provide more nuanced
characterizations of contemporary relationships between lusophone
countries allowing dialogue about inter/intra, colonial/racial
contradictions and their impact on power structures. Lusophone
Hip-hop offers fascinatingly diverse perspectives on rich source
material little-known to readers more familiar with hip-hop in
African American contexts.
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