Nairobi Hip Hop Flow

Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground

RaShelle R. Peck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520386488 (ISBN)

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Nairobi Hip Hop Flow combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop's embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines how hip hop artists in Nairobi's underground rap culture engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound by fostering a creative playfulness using bodily movement. This unprecedented study shows how Nairobi artists circulate diasporic blackness while at the same time indigenizing hip hop music to interrogate Kenya’s sociopolitical landscape.

RaShelle R. Peck is Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Race Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	California Series in Hip Hop Studies ; 4
Zusatzinfo	17 color figures
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780520386488 / 9780520386488
Zustand	Neuware