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By J. Griffith Rollefson

ISBN-10: 022649618X

ISBN-13: 9780226496184

ISBN-10: 022649621X

ISBN-13: 9780226496214

Hip hop has lengthy been a car for protest within the usa, utilized by its basically African American creators to deal with problems with prejudice, repression, and exclusion. however the tune is now a world phenomenon, and out of doors the USA it's been taken up by way of these dealing with comparable struggles. Flip the Script bargains an in depth examine the function of hip hop in Europe, the place it has develop into a politically strong and commercially winning type of expression for the kids and grandchildren of immigrants from former colonies.

 

Through research of recorded song and different media, in addition to interviews and fieldwork with hip hop groups, J. Griffith Rollefson indicates how this track created by means of black americans is deployed via Senegalese Parisians, Turkish Berliners, and South Asian Londoners to either differentiate themselves from and relate themselves to the dominant tradition. by way of listening heavily to the methods those postcolonial voters in Europe exhibit their harmony with African americans via tune, Rollefson indicates, we will actually pay attention the hybrid realities of an international double consciousness.

 

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