Global noise : rap and hip-hop outside the USA / edited by Tony Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Tony, 1949-

Series:

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Hip-hop.

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2001]

Summary:

International scholars explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia.

Contents:

Postcolonial popular music in France : rap music and hip-hop culture in the 1980s and 1990s / André J.M. Prévos

Islamic hip-hop vs. Islamophobia : Aki Nawaz, Natacha Atlas, Akhenaton / Ted Swedenburg

Urban breakbeat culture : repercussions of hip-hop in the United Kingdom / David Hesmondhalgh & Caspar Melville

Rap in Germany : the birth of a genre / Mark Pennay

Rap in Bulgaria : between fashion and reality / Claire Levy

Rap in the low countries : global dichotomies on a national scale / Mir Wermuth

"We are all Malcolm X!" : Negu Gorriak, hip-hop, and the Basque political imaginary / Jacqueline Urla

Fightin' da Faida : the Italian posses and hip-hop in Italy / Tony Mitchell

A history of Japanese hip-hop : street dance, club scene, pop market / Ian Condry

"Who is a dancing hero?" : rap, hip-hop, and dance in Korean popular culture / Sarah Morelli

Sydney stylee : hip-hop down under comin' up / Ian Maxwell

Kia Kaha! (Be strong!) : Maori and Pacific Islander hip-hop in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Tony Mitchell

Rap in Canada : bilingual and multicultural / Roger Chamberland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discographies, videographies, and index.

ISBN:

0819565016

0819565024

OCLC:

47965502