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Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
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Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msia Kibona Clark examines some of Africa’s biggest hip-hop scenes and shows how hip-hop helps us understand specifically African narratives of social, political, and economic realities.
Clark looks at the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems. She also details the spread of hip-hop culture in Africa following its emergence in the United States, assessing the impact of urbanization and demographics on the spread of hip-hop culture.
Hip-Hop in Africa is a tribute to a genre and its artists as well as a timely examination that pushes the study of music and diaspora in critical new directions. Accessibly written by one of the foremost experts on African hip-hop, this book will easily find its place in the classroom.
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Hip-Hop in Africa © 2018 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Language
eng
ISBN
9780896805026
Publication Date
4-30-2018
Publisher
Ohio University Press
City
Athens
Keywords
Africa, Hip-hop, Popular Culture in Africa, Rap, Ethnomusicology
Disciplines
African Studies | Ethnomusicology | Hip Hop Studies
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Clark, Msia Kibona, "Hip-Hop in Africa : Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers" (2018). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 55.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/55