Emergent quilombos : Black life and hip-hop in Brazil / Bryce Henson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henson, Bryce, author.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--Social aspects--Brazil.

Hip-hop.

Hip-hop--Political aspects--Brazil.

Black people--Brazil--Ethnic identity.

Black people.

Black people--Race identity--Brazil.

Black people--Brazil--Social conditions.

Working class--Brazil--Social conditions.

Working class.

Quilombos.

Black people--Ethnic identity.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people--Social conditions.

Working class--Social conditions.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

xi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Henson examines how the Black lower class of Bahia and elsewhere use hip-hop culture (music, fashion, video, etc) to create metaphoric "quilombos" (safe spaces), securing for themselves alternative social, cultural, and political systems and distinguishing themselves from "Brazilianness" and an Afrocentric Black diasporic middle class"-- Provided by publisher.

"How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition. Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population's African roots. Yet many Black Brazilian residents are politically and economically disenfranchised. Bryce Henson details a culture of resistance and activism that has emerged in response, expressed through hip-hop and the social relations surrounding it. Based on years of ethnographic research, Emergent Quilombos illuminates how Black hip-hop artists and their circles contest structures of anti-Black racism by creating safe havens and alternative social, cultural, and political systems that serve Black people. These artists valorize and empower marginalized Black peoples through song, aesthetics, media, visual art, and community action that emphasize diasporic connections, ancestrality, and Black identifications in opposition to the anti-Black Brazilian nation. In the process, Henson argues, the Salvador hip-hop scene has reinvigorated and reterritorialized a critical legacy of Black politicocultural resistance: quilombos, maroon communities of Black fugitives who refused slavery as a way of life, gathered away from the spaces of their oppression, protected their communities, and nurtured Black life in all its possibilities." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Racial conditions

Hip-hop aquilombamento

Black spaces of culture

Intimacy

Artifice

Mediating quilombo politics

Real women

Coda : a diasporic love letter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.

ISBN:

9781477328095

1477328092

9781477328101

1477328106

OCLC:

1371139035

Publisher Number:

90101092516

40032096298