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9780230609617

The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop Power Moves

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230609617

  • ISBN10:

    0230609619

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-07-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

This book explores how a vital, expressive culture, which began in a New York black and Latino impoverished working-class community, has become a global delineating sign of the new millennium.

Author Biography

Halifu Osumare is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at University of California, Davis

Table of Contents

Introduction: Power Moves from the Hip Hop Nation to the Hip Hop Globe * Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes, and Def Moves: The Africanist Aesthetic Meets the Hip Hop Globe * Beat Streets in the Global Hood: Hip Hop's Connective Marginalities * Props to the Local Boyz: Hip Hop Culture in Hawai'i * "It's All about the Benjamins:" Postmodernism and Hip Hop's Appropriation

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