Desi Rap

Hip Hop and South Asian America
Herausgeber: Nair, Ajay; Balaji, Murali

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Desi Rap explores the connection between South Asian Americans and hip-hop as both a sociopolitical/cultural movement and performative identity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is the first book of its kind to interrogate ideas about ownership of culture while asserting the distinctness of South Asian American identity that has come through the use of and influence by hip-hop as a cultural art form.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780739127223
• ISBN-10: 0739127225
• Artikelnr.: 24886471

Autorenporträt

Ajay Nair is Associate Vice Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Murali Balaji is a lecturer and doctoral fellow at the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. My Hip Hop Life
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Polyvalent Voices: Ethnic and Racialized Desi Hip Hop
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Hip Hop Agitprop
Chapter 6 Chapter 4. B-Boys and Bass Girls: Sex, Style, and Mobility in
Indian American Youth Culture
Chapter 7 Chapter 5. How Hip Hop Helped an Indian Girl Find Her Way Home
Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Making Brown Like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop
Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Outcaste
Part 10 Part II
Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Spoken Word
Chapter 12 Chapter 9. The Disjointed Artist
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Beats, Rhythm, Life
Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Sounds from a Town I Love
Chapter 15 Chapter 12. Words from the Battlefront
Chapter 16 Chapter 13. An Ear to the Streets and a Vibe in the Basement
Chapter 17 Afterword