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The Africanist aesthetic in global hip hop : power moves / Halifu Osumare.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: 1997Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007ISBN:
  • 9781403976307
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • Ijxfe
Contents:
Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes, and Def Moves : The Africanist Aesthetic Meets the Hip Hop Globe ; Beat Streets in the Global Hood : Hip Hop's Connective Marginalities ; Props to the Local Boyz : Hip Hop Culture in Hawaii ; 'It's All About the Benjamins' : Postmodernism and Hip Hop's Appropriation
Summary: Explores how a vital, expressive culture, which began in a New York Black and Latino impoverished community, has become a global delineating sign. This book investigates the collision and collusion between two globally pervasive forces: transnational media and capital and African American popular culture
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Book Biblioteket Brinellvägen Dah Ikyb Osumare Available 43731010474
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Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes, and Def Moves : The Africanist Aesthetic Meets the Hip Hop Globe ; Beat Streets in the Global Hood : Hip Hop's Connective Marginalities ; Props to the Local Boyz : Hip Hop Culture in Hawaii ; 'It's All About the Benjamins' : Postmodernism and Hip Hop's Appropriation

Explores how a vital, expressive culture, which began in a New York Black and Latino impoverished community, has become a global delineating sign. This book investigates the collision and collusion between two globally pervasive forces: transnational media and capital and African American popular culture

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