Nairobi Hip Hop Flow

Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground

RaShelle R. Peck (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

243 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38979-3 (ISBN)

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Nairobi Hip Hop Flow is an interdisciplinary study that combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop's embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines underground rap culture in Nairobi to illustrate how hip hop artists engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound and foster a creative playfulness using bodily movement. Through these artists' embodiments, a persistent diasporic blackness circulates, indigenizing the music and working alongside lyrical content to interrogate Kenya's sociopolitical landscape. Peck presents an unprecedented study of Nairobi artists' interactions with localized lyrics and globally signified performative, masculinist, and diasporic embodiments—one that is critical for understanding how hip hop espouses a globalized locality.

RaShelle R. Peck is Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Race Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Reihe/Serie	California Series in Hip Hop Studies ; 4
Zusatzinfo	17 color figures
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38979-4 / 0520389794
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38979-3 / 9780520389793
Zustand	Neuware