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"We are all Malcolm X?" : Negu Gorriak, hip-hop, and the basque political imaginary

Article: English. Bibliographic reference
Author(s)
Urla, Jacqueline
Title
"We are all Malcolm X?" : Negu Gorriak, hip-hop, and the basque political imaginary / Jacqueline Urla.
In
Global noise : rap and hip-hop outside the USA, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, 171-193
Subjects
Freestyle Rap ; Negu Gorriak ; Basque Country
Type of material
Article
Music has been an important terrain of cultural politics for many minorities and indigenous people, a means of unmasking power imbalances, denouncing injustice, and reframing identities. This paper explores the political imaginary of the Basque radical rock music group Negu Gorriak and the ways they articulated alliances with politicized hip hop.