Who said hip hop is dead

Based on a … Expand. Hip hop has the power to be a political force. It has also been successful in mobilizing young people for political activities through organizations and big rappers. Unlike its past where the music … Expand. View 1 excerpt, cites background. Cultural democracy : a Hip Hop-ological study. This research explores how the conditions for cultural democracy may be encouraged through Hip Hop as a critically engaged, creative practice. It focuses on the spaces where cultural democracy may be … Expand.

View 2 excerpts, cites background. Despite much literature on glocalization, independent hip-hop artist Lowkey has yet to be studied for his contributions to UK hip-hop. The ignorant hip-hop artist? Is Hip-Hop Violent?

This project tested the dominant cultural belief that Hip-Hop music is a more violent form of music. Our research compared music genres and indicators of violence.

Using data from the Madison Police … Expand. Coming Straight from the Underground. Often claimed but seldom researched, Oware explores the extent to which socially conscious themes are present in independent rap songs. Supposedly, independent rap is free of the misogyny, violence, … Expand. This research analyzes the afroquebecer rappers of the community of Limoilou Limoilou Starz and their friends of Montcalm in Quebec City as actors who appropriate elements of identity, social … Expand.

Accommodation and resistance in Hokkaido hip hop practitioners: An ethnographic analysis of Generation Resignation in post-growth Japan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between October and October in Hokkaido, northern Japan, this paper explores the trajectories of individuals engaging in hip hop music.

Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop … Expand. View 2 excerpts, references background. In this groundbreaking book, Jeffrey O. Ogbar celebrates hip-hop and confronts the cult of authenticity that defines its essential character.

Deftly balancing an insider's love of the culture with … Expand. At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this … Expand.

View 3 excerpts, references background. From the margins to mainstream: the political power of hip-hop. Uniquely situated at the heart of African-American youth culture, hip-hop is about music, style and voice. In many ways hip-hop is also about political action. Any discussion of hip-hop culture and … Expand. View 1 excerpt, references background. The most radical ideas often grow out of a concrete intellectual engagement with the problems of aggrieved populations confronting systems of oppression.

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