Hip-Hop Revolution : The Culture and Politics of Rap / Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G., author.

Series:

Culturel (Series)

CultureAmerica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--Political aspects.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--Social aspects.

Hip-hop.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2007]

Summary:

Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central and Eastern Europe has gradually developed unique, local trajectories, a number of which are showcased in this volume. On the one hand, hip hop functions as a marker of Western cosmopolitanism and democratic ideology, but as the contributors show, it is also a malleable genre that has been infused with so much local identity that it has lost most of its previous associations with?the West? in the experiences of local musicians, audiences, and producers. Contextualizing hip hop through the prism of local experiences and regional musical expressions, these valuable case studies reveal the broad spectrum of its impact on popular culture and youth identity in the post-Soviet world.

Contents:

Introduction / Adriana Helbig and Milosz Miszczynski

Part 1: Hip Hop, Postsocialism, and Democracy

Rapping into Power: The Use of Hip Hop in Albanian Politics / Gentian Elezi and Elona Toska

Nothing Left to Lose: Hip Hop in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Jasmin Mujanoviâc

Russian Rap in the Era of Vladimir Putin / Philip Ewell

Rap Music as a Cultural Mediator in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia / Alexandra Baladina

Part 2: Hip Hop and Emerging Market Economies

Diesel Power: Serbian Hip Hop from the Pleasure of the Privileged to Mass Youth Culture / Goran Music and Predrag Vukcevic

"The Underground is for Beggars": Slovak Rap at the Center of National Popular Culture / Peter Barrer

Music, Technology, and Shifts in Popular Culture: Making Hip Hop in e-Estonia / Triin Vallaste

Wearing Nikes for a Reason: A Critical Analysis of Brand Usage in Polish Rap / Milosz Miszczynski and Przemyslaw Tomaszewski

Part 3: Hip Hop on the Margins

Cosmopolitan Inscriptions? Mimicry, Rap, and Rurbanity in Post-socialist Albania / Nicholas Tochka

Violence as Existential Punctuation: Russian Hip Hop in the Age of Late Capitalism / Alexandre Gontchar

Unmasking Expressions in Turkish Rap/Hip Hop Culture: Contestation and Construction of Alternatve Identities Through Localizaton in Arabesk Music / Nuran Erol Iosik and Murat Can Basaran

Hip Hop as a Means of Flight from 'Gypsy Ghetto' in Eastern Europe / Michal Ruzicka, Alena Kajanova, Veronika Zvanovcova, and Tomas Mrhalek

Rapping the Changes in North-East Siberia: Hip Hop, Urbanization, and Sakha Ethnicity / Aimar Ventsel and Eleanor Peers

Part 4: Hip Hop and Global Circulations of Blackness

La haine et les autres crimes: Ghettocentric Imagery in Serbian Hip Hop Videos / Irena éSentevska

The Power of the Words: Discourses of Authenticity in Czech Rap Music / Anna Oravcova

"Keep it 360": (Re)envisioning The Cultural and Racial Roots of Hip Hop through DJ Rhetoric and Ethnography / Todd Craig.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7006-3373-1

0-253-02304-1

OCLC:

960940756