Desi Rap - Hip-Hop and South Asian America

Informationen zum Autor Ajay Nair is Associate Vice Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Murali Balaji is a lecturer and doctoral fellow at the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University. Klappentext Desi Rap explores the connection between South Asian Americans and hip-hop as both a sociopolitical/cultural movement and performative identity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is the first book of its kind to interrogate ideas about ownership of culture while asserting the distinctness of South Asian American identity that has come through the use of and influence by hip-hop as a cultural art form. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I Chapter 3 Chapter 1. My Hip Hop Life Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Polyvalent Voices: Ethnic and Racialized Desi Hip Hop Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Hip Hop Agitprop Chapter 6 Chapter 4. B-Boys and Bass Girls: Sex, Style, and Mobility in Indian American Youth Culture Chapter 7 Chapter 5. How Hip Hop Helped an Indian Girl Find Her Way Home Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Making Brown Like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Outcaste Part 10 Part II Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Spoken Word Chapter 12 Chapter 9. The Disjointed Artist Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Beats, Rhythm, Life Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Sounds from a Town I Love Chapter 15 Chapter 12. Words from the Battlefront Chapter 16 Chapter 13. An Ear to the Streets and a Vibe in the Basement Chapter 17 Afterword

Product details

• Authors: Ajay Nair, Ajay (EDT)/ Balaji Nair
• Assisted by: Murali Balaji (Editor), Balaji Murali (Editor), Ajay Nair (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780739127216
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2721-6
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Music, Rap and Hip Hop, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, United States of America, USA, Theory of music & musicology, Popular Music, Theory of music and musicology, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity