Christopher Dennis

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop (eBook, ePUB)

Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture-specifically hip-hop and rap-are having on the social identities of younger generations of black Colombians. Along with addressing why and how hip-hop has migrated so effectively to Colombia's black communities, Dennis introduces readers to some of the country's most renowned Afro-Colombian hip-hop artists, their musical innovations, and production and distribution practices. Above all, Dennis demonstrates how, through a mode of transculturation, today's young artists are transforming U.S. hip-hop into a more autonomous art form used for articulating oppositional social and political critiques, reworking ethnic identities, and actively contributing to the reimagining of the Colombian nation. Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop uncovers ways in which young Afro-Colombian performers are attempting to use hip-hop and digital media to bring the perspectives, histories, and expressive forms of their marginalized communities into national and international public consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739150580
• Artikelnr.: 38218961

Autorenporträt

By Christopher Dennis

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Hip
Hop Afrocolombiano: Origins, Production, and Distribution Practices Chapter 3: Afro
Colombian Hip
Hop: Resistance and Political Protest Chapter 4: The Afro
Colombian Hip
Hop Narrative and Emerging Identity Constructs Chapter 5: The "Afro
Colombianization" of Hip
Hop Chapter 6: A(n) (Afro)Colombian Hip
Hop Nation Chapter 7: Conclusions: The Two Sides of Globalization Notes Selected Discography Bibliography