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Rap and resistance: visions of self and society in american, african, and french hip hop music

Document: English. Online
Author(s)
Hutchinson, Rosalind
Title
Rap and resistance: visions of self and society in american, african, and french hip hop music / by Rosalind G. Hutchinson
Publication
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 2012
Subjects
Freestyle Rap ; Africa ; America ; Corsica
Content
Testu osoa
Physical description
1 fitxategi (PDF, 455 KB) (67 or.)
Type of material
Document
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1, Mental Freedom and State Control:
The Revolutionary Imagination in American Hip Hop...........................9
Controlling the Body – Hip Hop and the Police Figure...................10
Fighting Negative Images – Internal Economy in Hip Hop............14
Creating Communities – Hip Hop and the Fight Against Consumerism..............................................................19
CHAPTER 2, Cuts against Cutting: Female Expressions and Bodies in African Rap..........................................................................26
FGC and the Body – Problematic Discussions of Genital Cutting..............................................................................27
Revaluing the Female Body Through Rap –Strategies Against Cutting.................................................................30
Sound Bodies – Rap and Women's Contributions.............................37
CHAPTER 3, Hip Hop in France :
Banlieue, Alterity, and Plurality.................................................................42
Confined Spaces – The Banlieue and the Image...............................43
French Hip Hop and Economy –
Challenging Value Systems...............................................................49
Rap and Creating the Global – Plurality and Solidarity....................55
CONCLUSION............................................................................................62
WORKS CITED..........................................................................................65