Flip the Script - European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality

In his history of hip-hop, ethnomusicologist J. Griffith Rollefson combines ethnography and music analysis to look at the three foundational cities in the hip-hop world of twenty-first century Europe. He first explores Paris's musical response to the National Front in France, then Turkish German groups in Berlin, and finally M.I.A. and other South Asian critiques in London. Throughout, Rollefson shows how African-American expressive cultures, especially rap music and hip-hop culture, are central to minority identity in the UK, France, and Germany, and how music plays a pivotal role as a point of political commentary and action. He offers great insight into cross-cultural and postcolonial minority experience and the paradoxes of Western modernity, such as the use of a commercialized music as a form of resistance. This engaging and provocative study helps to show how music can outline the cultural dimensions of ethnicity and race in the modern Western world.

Product details

• Authors: J. Griffith Rollefson
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780226496184
• ISBN: 978-0-226-49618-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP); Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Music, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural anthropology, Theory of music and musicology