Renegade rhymes : rap music, narrative, and knowledge in Taiwan / Meredith Schweig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweig, Meredith, author.

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.

Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--Taiwan--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Rap (Music)--Social aspects--Taiwan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 18 halftones, 4 line drawings

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill : The University of Chicago Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history. Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law under the Chinese Nationalist Party ended. As members of a multicultural, multilingual society with a complex history of migration and colonization, Taiwanese people entered this moment of political transformation eager to tell their stories and grapple with their identities. In Renegade Rhymes, ethnomusicologist Meredith Schweig shows how rap music has become a powerful tool in the post-authoritarian period for both exploring and producing new knowledge about the ethnic, cultural, and political history of Taiwan. ​ Schweig draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, taking readers to concert venues, music video sets, scenes of protest, and more to show how early MCs from marginalized ethnic groups infused rap with important aspects of their own local languages, music, and narrative traditions. Aiming their critiques at the educational system and a neoliberal economy, new generations of rappers have used the art form to nurture associational bonds and rehearse rituals of democratic citizenship, making a new kind of sense out of their complicated present.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Abbreviations

Notes on Romanization and Translation

List of Figures and Musical Examples

Prologue: First, the Rain

Introduction: Tales of Taiwan

PART ONE Polyphonic Histories

Chapter One It Depends on How You Define “Rap”...

Chapter Two ...Because Others Might Define It Differently

PART TWO Narratives and Knowledge

Chapter Three Masculinity Politics and Rap’s Fraternal Order

Chapter Four Performing Musical Knowledge Work

Chapter Five “We Are So Strong, We Are Writing History”

Epilogue: Then, the Sunflowers

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-82058-0

OCLC:

1334887266