Nairobi Hip Hop Flow : Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
California Series in Hip Hop Studies
ISBN-10
0520386485
ISBN-13
9780520386488
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 25th, 2025
Print length
250 Pages
Weight
1 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Theory of music & musicologyRap & Hip-HopEthnic minorities & multicultural studies
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Nairobi Hip Hop Flow combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop's embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines how hip hop artists in Nairobi's underground rap culture engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound by fostering a creative playfulness using bodily movement. This unprecedented study shows how Nairobi artists circulate diasporic blackness while at the same time indigenizing hip hop music to interrogate Kenya’s sociopolitical landscape.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press''s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Nairobi Hip Hop Flow combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop''s embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines how hip hop artists in Nairobi''s underground rap culture engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound by fostering a creative playfulness using bodily movement. This unprecedented study shows how Nairobi artists circulate diasporic blackness while at the same time indigenizing hip hop music to interrogate Kenyas sociopolitical landscape.
Nairobi Hip Hop Flow combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop''s embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines how hip hop artists in Nairobi''s underground rap culture engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound by fostering a creative playfulness using bodily movement. This unprecedented study shows how Nairobi artists circulate diasporic blackness while at the same time indigenizing hip hop music to interrogate Kenyas sociopolitical landscape.
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