Hip Hop Desis - South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness

Informationen zum Autor Nitasha Tamar Sharma Klappentext Ethnographic study of South Asian American hip hop artists that looks at the cultural and political implications of these artists' use of black popular culture to create and express racial alliances. Zusammenfassung An ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Claiming Space, Making Race 1 1. Alternative Ethnics: Rotten Coconuts and Ethnic Hip Hop 37 2. Making Race: Desi Racial Identities, South Asian and Black Relations, and Racialized Hip Hop 88 3. Flipping the Gender Script: Gender and Sexuality in South Asian and Hip Hop America 138 4. The Appeal of Hip Hop, Ownership, and the Politics of Location 190 5. Sampling South Asians: Dual Flows of Appropriation and the Possibilities of Authenticity 234 Conclusion: Turning Thoughts into Action through the Politics of Identification 283 Notes 301 References 315 Index 335

Product details

• Authors: Nitasha Sharma, Nitasha Tamar Sharma
• Assisted by: Josh Kun (Editor), Ronald Radano (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2010
• EAN: 9780822347415
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4741-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore