Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia

This long-awaited volume is the first to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across eleven chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip-Hop in Australia.

List of contents

Introduction: Representing Hip Hop in Australia Section 1: Hip Hop Histories, Eras and Evolutions 1. Graffiti and Hip Hop in Australia: An Interview with Matthew MISTERY Peet 2. From Gen X to Gen Y: Hip-Hop Life-Stories in Australia 3. Revisiting Nationalism and Multiculturalism in So-called Australian Hip Hop Section 2: Hip Hop Activism and Politics 4. Hip Hop, Activism and Other Stories (Herstory) 5. ‘Hip Hop Crim’ - A Discourse Analysis of Conscious First Nations Hip Hop Contesting Australia's Criminal Justice System 6. We Need to Infiltrate Those Spaces: Space-Reclaiming through Counternarratives in First Nations Hip-Hop in Sydney 7. ‘Hip-Hop Fam’ or a Larrikin Brand? Urthboy and the Bind of the Conscious MC Section 3: Hip Hop Performance Practices and Place 8. Hip Hop Dance Jams and Cyphers 9. Pirlapakarnu Cypher: Beyond Representing Place to Warlpiri Embodiments of Country in Milpirri Hip Hop 10. ‘Who is this Imposter?’: Women in Australian Underground Hip Hop 11. “In a Good Way There’s No BEEF, but the Bad Thing is There’s No BEEF”: Tensions and Changing Cultural Politics in Sydney’s Breaking Scene.

About the author

Sudiipta Dowsett is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Lucas Marie is the Deputy Director for Culture, at the Centre for Defence Leadership & Ethics (CDLE), Australian Defence College, Canberra.
Dianne Rodger is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Grant Leigh Saunders is a Biripi First Nations independent creative researcher, award-winning documentary filmmaker and Regional Manager of Joint Colleges Training Services (NSW/ACT).

Summary

This long-awaited volume is the first to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across eleven chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip-Hop in Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Sudiipta (Unsw Dowsett
• Assisted by: Sudiipta Dowsett (Editor), Lucas Marie (Editor), Dianne Rodger (Editor), Grant Leigh Saunders (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032492490
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249249-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Music, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, History: specific events & topics, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Australia, Rap and Hip Hop, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Australian & Oceanian, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics & government, History of Music, Theory of music & musicology, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology