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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Vinyl ain't final. London : Pluto, 2006 (OCoLC)591214608 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dipannita Basu; Sidney J Lemelle |
| ISBN: | 0745319416 0745319408 9780745319407 9780745319414 |
| OCLC Number: | 62177665 |
| Description: | xvii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Grooving to the vinyl stateside : rap and hip hop in the U.S. For the people, Tribute, and Redbone ; A rap thing, on rapping rap, and hip hop or homeland security ; Hip hop : cultural clout, corporate control, and the carceral cast ; Nobody knows my name and an interview with the director Rachel Raimist ; From Azeem to Zion-1 : the evolution of global consciousness in Bay Area hip hop ; Head rush : hip hop and a Hawaiian nation on the rise ; War at 33 1/3 : hip hop, the language of the unheard, and the Afro-Asian Atlantic -- Rap and hip hop groove globally. The nation question : fundamental and the deathening silence ; Keeping it real in a different 'hood : (African-) Americanization and hip hop in Germany ; Africa on their mind : rap, blackness, and citizenship in France ; Cuban hip hop : making space for new voices of dissent ; Dancing between islands : hip hop and the Samoan diaspora ; Negotiating ethnicity and authenticity in Tokyo's Club Harlem ; Globalization and gangster rap : hip hop in the post-apartheid city ; Ni wapi tunakwenda : hip hop culture and the children of Arusha. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle. |
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The Vinyl Ain't Final, is the latest attempt in the still growing field of hip hop studies to widen the scope of these discussions, amplifying this deep concern for the political to a global context. It is an insightful but largely humourless book, and therein lies the problem. If the exercise of deploring the bullet riddled 50 Cent's perforation as a marketing hook seems tired in a local context, consider what happens when we take these irresolvable questions to the world's stage. This book flits back and forth between Tanzanian national politics and local 'bongo flava' rappers with ease. -- Hua Hsu, The Wire This book explores hip hop as a global phenomenon' begins the blurb -reassuring if you're unfortunate enough to reside in those far off places where the residue of Grandmaster Flash's leather pants hasn't yet arrived. -- Hip Hop connection The early chapters of the book show how at street level a combination of low economic status, poor education and a racist criminal justice system keeps young talented MCs excluded from the music business. Success stories like artist 50 Cent with his thug to riches story emerge as the exception to the rule. Meanwhile at the top end, even the strong visibility of black entrepreneurship is still beholden to their larger, white owned major labels and distributors. In spite of this, for so many young people in the US, hip hop remains a creative postive force. Among the appalling homicide rates of Oakland and the Bay Area, we find a culturally diverse hip hop scene. In Hawaii - as in so many places around the world, hip hop provides the language of resistance for native Hawaiins fighting for self determination. -- Miriam Zadik Gold, Socialist Review Read more...
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