Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes

Ian Maxwell s sophisticated story of Australia s hip-hop scene follows the lives of a small, influential group of rappers from Sydney s Westside in the early 1990s. Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of the white musicians to define Australian hip-hop, showing how discourses of nationalism and community are played out in everyday life. Whether describing composition in a bedroom, confrontation in a radio studio, tagging in a subway line, or breaking in front of a stage, Maxwell evokes the intensity of feeling and the complexity of these key experiences.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

IAN MAXWELL is Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney. He is a contributor to Global Noise (Wesleyan, 2002).

Zusammenfassung

How Aussies came to belong to the hip-hop nation.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ian Maxwell
• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.11.2003
• EAN: 9780819566386
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-6638-6
• Seiten: 322
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Gewicht: 525 g
• Serien: Music/Culture; Music Culture S.; Music/Culture; Music / Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde