Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop

Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities

Christopher Dennis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2011
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-5056-6 (ISBN)

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Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture—specifically hip-hop and rap—are having on the social identities of younger generations of black Colombians. Along with addressing why and how hip-hop has migrated so effectively to Colombia’s black communities, Dennis introduces readers to some of the country’s most renowned Afro-Colombian hip-hop artists, their musical innovations, and production and distribution practices. Above all, Dennis demonstrates how, through a mode of transculturation, today’s young artists are transforming U.S. hip-hop into a more autonomous art form used for articulating oppositional social and political critiques, reworking ethnic identities, and actively contributing to the reimagining of the Colombian nation.
Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop uncovers ways in which young Afro-Colombian performers are attempting to use hip-hop and digital media to bring the perspectives, histories, and expressive forms of their marginalized communities into national and international public consciousness.

Christopher Dennis is a professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature and cultures at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. In addition to his research on hip-hop, he has also published articles on Afro-Colombian literature, racial iconography relevant to Cartagena's tourist industry, and the discursive representation of black subjects in Colombian colonial literature.

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Hip-HopAfrocolombiano: Origins, Production, and Distribution Practices
Chapter 3: Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Resistance and Political Protest
Chapter 4: The Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop Narrative and Emerging Identity Constructs
Chapter 5: The "Afro-Colombianization" of Hip-Hop
Chapter 6: A(n) (Afro)Colombian Hip-Hop Nation
Chapter 7: Conclusions: The Two Sides of Globalization
Notes
Selected Discography
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2011
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 243 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-5056-1 / 0739150561
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-5056-6 / 9780739150566
Zustand	Neuware