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This book examines social change in Africa through the lens of hip
hop music and culture. Artists engage their African communities in
a variety of ways that confront established social structures,
using coded language and symbols to inform, question, and
challenge. Through lyrical expression, dance, and graffiti, hip hop
is used to challenge social inequality and to push for social
change. The study looks across Africa and explores how hip hop is
being used in different places, spaces, and moments to foster
change. In this edited work, authors from a wide range of fields,
including history, sociology, African and African American studies,
and political science explore the transformative impact that hip
hop has had on African youth, who have in turn emerged to push for
social change on the continent. The powerful moment in which those
that want change decide to consciously and collectively take a
stand is rooted in an awareness that has much to do with time.
Therefore, the book centers on African hip hop around the context
of "it's time" for change, Ni Wakati.
Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These
are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional
structures; the structured and shared relationships among African
immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and
negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class
consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African
migrant economic integration, occupational, and labor force roles
and statuses and impact on host societies. Each of the thematic
themes has been chosen with one specific goal in mind: to depict
and represent the critical components in the reconstitution of the
African diaspora in international migration. We contextualized the
themes in the African diaspora as a dynamic process involving what
Paul Zeleza called the "diasporization" of African immigrant
settlement communities in global transnational spaces. These themes
also reflect the diversities inherent in the diaspora communities
and call attention to the fluid and dynamic boundaries within which
Africans create, diffuse, and engage host and home societies. In
this context, the themes outlined in this book embody the diaspora
tapestries woven by the immigrants to center African social and
cultural forms in their host societies and communities.
Collectively, the themes represent pathways for the elucidation of
understanding African immigrant territorialization. Our purpose is
to map out and identify the sources and sites for the contestations
of the myriad of cultural manifestations of the new African
diaspora and its depictions within the totality of the shared
meanings and appropriations of the essences of African-ness or
African blackness. The vulnerabilities, struggles, threats
(internal or external to the immigrant community), and
opportunities emanating from the diasporic relationships that these
immigrants create are accentuated within the nexus of African
global migrations. We view the African diaspora in terms of spatial
and geographic constructions and propagations of African cultural
identities and institutional forms in global domains whose
boundaries are not static but rather dynamic, complex, and
multidimensional. Simply stated, we approach the African diaspora
from a perspective that incorporates the historical, as well as
contemporary postmodern constructions of the Africa's dispersed
communities and their associated transnational identity forms.
Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives
and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary,
feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state
institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global
hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia Kibona Clark examines
some of Africa's biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps
us understand specifically African narratives of social, political,
and economic realities. Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in
protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a
tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems. She also
details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa following its
emergence in the United States, assessing the impact of
urbanization and demographics on the spread of hip-hop culture.
Hip-Hop in Africa is a tribute to a genre and its artists as well
as a timely examination that pushes the study of music and diaspora
in critical new directions. Accessibly written by one of the
foremost experts on African hip-hop, this book will easily find its
place in the classroom.
Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives
and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary,
feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state
institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global
hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia Kibona Clark examines
some of Africa's biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps
us understand specifically African narratives of social, political,
and economic realities. Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in
protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a
tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems. She also
details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa following its
emergence in the United States, assessing the impact of
urbanization and demographics on the spread of hip-hop culture.
Hip-Hop in Africa is a tribute to a genre and its artists as well
as a timely examination that pushes the study of music and diaspora
in critical new directions. Accessibly written by one of the
foremost experts on African hip-hop, this book will easily find its
place in the classroom.
This book explores Black identity, from a global perspective. The
historical and contemporary migrations of African peoples have
brought up some interesting questions regarding identity. This text
examines some of those questions, and will provide relevant essays
on the identities created by those migrations. Following a regional
contextualizing of migration trends, the personal essays with allow
for understandings of how those migrations impacted personal and
community identities. Each of the personal essays will be written
by bicultural Africans/Blacks from around the world. The essays
represent a wide spectrum of experiences and viewpoints central to
the bicultural Africans/Black experience. The contributors offer
poignant and grounded perspectives on the diverse ways race,
ethnicity, and culture are experienced, debated, and represented.
All of the chapters contribute more broadly to writings on dual
identities, and the various ways bicultural Africans/Blacks
navigate their identities and their places in African and Diaspora
communities.
This book examines social change in Africa through the lens of hip
hop music and culture. Artists engage their African communities in
a variety of ways that confront established social structures,
using coded language and symbols to inform, question, and
challenge. Through lyrical expression, dance, and graffiti, hip hop
is used to challenge social inequality and to push for social
change. The study looks across Africa and explores how hip hop is
being used in different places, spaces, and moments to foster
change. In this edited work, authors from a wide range of fields,
including history, sociology, African and African American studies,
and political science explore the transformative impact that hip
hop has had on African youth, who have in turn emerged to push for
social change on the continent. The powerful moment in which those
that want change decide to consciously and collectively take a
stand is rooted in an awareness that has much to do with time.
Therefore, the book centers on African hip hop around the context
of "it's time" for change, Ni Wakati.
Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These
are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional
structures; the structured and shared relationships among African
immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and
negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class
consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African
migrant economic integration, occupational, and labor force roles
and statuses and impact on host societies. Each of the thematic
themes has been chosen with one specific goal in mind: to depict
and represent the critical components in the reconstitution of the
African diaspora in international migration. We contextualized the
themes in the African diaspora as a dynamic process involving what
Paul Zeleza called the "diasporization" of African immigrant
settlement communities in global transnational spaces. These themes
also reflect the diversities inherent in the diaspora communities
and call attention to the fluid and dynamic boundaries within which
Africans create, diffuse, and engage host and home societies. In
this context, the themes outlined in this book embody the diaspora
tapestries woven by the immigrants to center African social and
cultural forms in their host societies and communities.
Collectively, the themes represent pathways for the elucidation of
understanding African immigrant territorialization. Our purpose is
to map out and identify the sources and sites for the contestations
of the myriad of cultural manifestations of the new African
diaspora and its depictions within the totality of the shared
meanings and appropriations of the essences of African-ness or
African blackness. The vulnerabilities, struggles, threats
(internal or external to the immigrant community), and
opportunities emanating from the diasporic relationships that these
immigrants create are accentuated within the nexus of African
global migrations. We view the African diaspora in terms of spatial
and geographic constructions and propagations of African cultural
identities and institutional forms in global domains whose
boundaries are not static but rather dynamic, complex, and
multidimensional. Simply stated, we approach the African diaspora
from a perspective that incorporates the historical, as well as
contemporary postmodern constructions of the Africa's dispersed
communities and their associated transnational identity forms.
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