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.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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 and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477328118

1477328114

OCLC:

1399451032