Scholarship in the field of hip-hop studies has convincingly argued against a “cultural grey out” and in favor of “local idiosyncrasies” in the mobility of cultural forms. That said, no published study has focused on the movements of the artists themselves in a transpacific context that places scenes in Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam in conversation with one another. Varying histories of colonialism and postcolonial movements are essential aspects of each social context. I argue that the transpacific lens allows scholars to draw out the movements of individuals, influences, and emergent trends in the art form to better understand how artists are, metaphorically, scratching back and forth between representing originality on the one hand and the need for popular appeal on the other. I draw on vinyl itself as a metaphor for this article, which is framed as an EP.
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Rapping French Cities in the 1990s
Blurring Marseille and Brightening Paris in Contested Processes of Boundary Making
Joseph Downing
cities of Paris and Marseille. 12 The breakthrough for rap in France came in the 1990s, which was a turning point in hip-hop history. It was then that rap went global from its origins in New York City and the United States more broadly. 13 Institutions
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 136–154 (19 total)
Spatializing Black Girlhood
Rap Music and Strategies of Refusal
Asilia Franklin-Phipps
gendered and racial in ways that constrain and shorten Black lives ( Gilmore 2007 ). I discuss hip-hop and rap as a site of cultural work that inspires and expands the possibility for Black girls and women in a historical and sociocultural context that
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- Research Article
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- 89–104 (16 total)
Julianne Guillard
Ruth Nicole Brown. 2009. Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy
Placido Muñoz Moran
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Feb 2021
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- Book Review
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- 272–273 (1 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 May 2021
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- Book Review
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- 549–550 (1 total)
Eluned Jones
Gaunt, Kyra D. 2006. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes From Double-Dutch to Hip hop. New York: NY University Press.
Raperas of the NeoRevolución
young women, capitalism and Cuban hip hop culture
Ardath Whynacht
This article explores female representation in mainstream hip hop culture in Cuba as a case study for analyzing how the presence of a commercial recording industry affects girls' participation as artists at the community level. The author raises questions about the role of a commercial recording industry, within a neoliberal political culture, in skewing youth culture from its underground roots, and about how young women navigate and resist such challenges in order to participate in hip hop culture.
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2009
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- Research Article
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- 119–138 (20 total)
Some Assembly Required
Black Barbie and the Fabrication of Nicki Minaj
Jennifer Dawn Whitney
This article explores the public persona of hip hop artist Nicki Minaj, and her appropriation of the iconic Barbie doll. Minaj's image has drawn criticism from pundits and peers alike, but, nonetheless, it has inspired a creative fan following. With reference to feminist theory and recent trends in poststructuralist thought, this article suggests the ways in which Minaj and her fans pluralize how we think about Barbie, race and idealized femininity in the West.
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2012
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- 141–159 (19 total)
Jessica Marglin, Harry Gamble, Jennifer D. Keene, Renée Poznanski, Nicole Rudolph, Kathryn Kleppinger, and Camille Robcis
Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881–1938 by Mary Dewhurst Lewis Reviewed by Jessica Marglin
Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940 by Elizabeth Foster Reviewed by Harry Gamble
Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Infantry Regiment and the African Americans Quest for Equality by Jeffrey T. Sammons and John H. Morrow Reviewed by Jennifer D. Keene
Pétain's Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–1942 by Daniel Lee Reviewed by Renée Poznanski
The Social Project: Housing Postwar France by Kenny Cupers Reviewed by Nicole Rudolph
French Moves: The Cultural Politics of Le Hip Hop by Felicia McCarren Reviewed by Kathryn Kleppinger
The Politics of Adoption: Gender and the Making of French Citizenship by Bruno Perreau Reviewed by Camille Robcis
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2015
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- Book Review
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- 131–154 (24 total)