The Globally Familiar

Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi

Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478011200 (ISBN)

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In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through transnational media worlds. His ethnography focuses on a group of diverse young, working-class men in Delhi as they take up the African diasporic aesthetics and creative practices of hip hop. Dattatreyan shows how these aspiring b-boys, MCs, and graffiti writers fashion themselves and their city through their online and offline experimentations with hip hop, thereby accessing new social, economic, and political opportunities while acting as consumers, producers, and influencers in global circuits of capitalism. In so doing, Dattatreyan outlines how the hopeful, creative, and vitally embodied practices of hip hop offer an alternative narrative of urban place-making in "digital" India.

Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Friendship and Romance 21
2. The Materially Familiar 49
3. Labor and Work 79
4. Hip Hop Ideologies 107
5. Urban Development 135
6. Race and Place 163
Epilogue 191
Notes 205
Bibliography 229
Index 241

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	17 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478011200 / 9781478011200
Zustand	Neuware