Afrobeats and American Hip Hop : Sampling, Rhetoric, and Intertextuality in Burna Boy's Last Last / Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sylvanus, Emaeyak Peter, author.

Series:

SAGE business cases.

SAGE business cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals, 2025.

Summary:

This case study explores the nexus between Afrobeats and American Hip Hop. It specifically analyses Burna Boy's song Last Last as a sample-based beat/music-making process that inflects Toni Braxton's He Wasn't Man Enough for underlying cross-cultural and counter-gender narratives. In doing so, the study offers readers an understanding of the logic of imitation, stylization, and textuality that characterize much of global Hip Hop culture. Each section is supported by theories of textuality, sampling, and rhetoric. The first section focuses on sampling as a technique in Burna Boy's piece and allows students to explore the possible cross-cultural beat paradigm between Afrobeats and American hip hop. The second section addresses notions of imitation and style to engage readers in the matter of originality in global hip hop. The closing section delves into the logic of rhetoric and externalization to help students understand Burna Boy's narrative counterpoint to Toni Braxton's piece.

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ISBN:

9781071982396

1071982397

OCLC:

1483993561