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Hip hop at Europe's edge : music, agency, and social change / edited by Milosz Miszczynski and Adriana Helbig

Miszczyński, Miłosz [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Helbig, Adriana, 1974- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2017] [© 2017]

ix, 311 Seiten : Diagramme ; 23 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Hip hop at Europe's edge. - Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2017 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-253-02273-8 ( : cloth:alk. paper); 978-0-253-02304-9 ( : pbk.:alk. paper)

978-0-253-02321-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2016043843

9780253023049

OCoLC: 992440089     

OCoLC: 992440089 (aus SWB)     

LS 48650      Ähnliche Literatur

ML3531

782.4216490947

*Osteuropa ; Hip-Hop ; Popkultur ; Soziale Funktion ; Politischer Wandel ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

*Osteuropa ; Hip-Hop ; Kulturelle Identität ; Soziale Funktion ; Kulturübertragung ; Politischer Wandel ; Popkultur ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Rap (Music) -- Europe, Eastern -- History and criticism ; Rap (Music) -- Europe, Central -- History and criticism ; Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern ; Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central

Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central and Eastern Europe has gradually developed unique, local trajectories, a number of which are showcased in this volume. On the one hand, hip hop functions as a marker of Western cosmopolitanism and democratic ideology, but as the contributors show, it is also a malleable genre that has been infused with so much local identity that it has lost most of its previous associations with?the West? in the experiences of local musicians, audiences, and producers. Contextualizing hip hop through the prism of local experiences and regional musical expressions, these valuable case studies reveal the broad spectrum of its impact on popular culture and youth identity in the post-Soviet world

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