Hip Hop Authenticity And The London Scene

Author : Laura Speers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317338928
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene written by Laura Speers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices, identities, and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene, the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop, and the dynamics of cultural appropriation, globalization, marketization, and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic, theoretical, and cultural analysis. Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research, and for other music genres such as punk, rock and roll, country, and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity.

Author : Laura Speers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317338936
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene written by Laura Speers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices, identities, and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene, the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop, and the dynamics of cultural appropriation, globalization, marketization, and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic, theoretical, and cultural analysis. Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research, and for other music genres such as punk, rock and roll, country, and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity.

Author : Dulcie A. Dixon McKenzie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040023002
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black British Gospel Music written by Dulcie A. Dixon McKenzie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black British Gospel Music is a dynamic and multifaceted musical practice, a diasporic river rooted in the experiences of Black British Christian communities. This book examines gospel music in Britain in both historical and contemporary perspectives, demonstrating the importance of this this vital genre to scholars across disciplines. Drawing on a plurality of voices, the book examines the diverse streams that contribute to and flow out of this significant genre. Gospel can be heard resonating within a diverse array of Christian worship spaces; as a form of community music-making in school halls; and as a foundation for ‘secular’ British popular music, including R&B, hip hop and grime.

Author : Patrick Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134831625
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hip Hop Versus Rap written by Patrick Turner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What is the real hip hop?' 'To whom does hip hop belong?' 'For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?' These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists in Hip Hop Versus Rap, which explores the politics of cultural authenticity, ownership, and uplift in London’s post-hip hop scene. The book is an ethnographic study of the identity, role, formation, and practices of the organic intellectuals that populate and propagate this ‘conscious’ hip hop milieu. Turner provides an insightful examination of the work of artists and practitioners who use hip hop ‘off-street’ in the spheres of youth work, education, and theatre to raise consciousness and to develop artistic and personal skills. Hip Hop Versus Rap seeks to portray how cultural activism, which styles itself grassroots and mature, is framed around a discursive opposition between what is authentic and ethical in hip hop culture and what is counterfeit and corrupt. Turner identifies that this play of difference, framed as an ethical schism, also presents hip hop’s organic intellectuals with a narrative that enables them to align their insurgent values with those of policy and to thereby receive institutional support. This enlightening volume will be of interest to post-graduates and scholars interested in hip hop studies; youth work; critical pedagogy; young people and crime/justice; the politics of race/racism; the politics of youth/education; urban governance; social movement studies; street culture studies; and vernacular studies.

Author : David Horn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501326104
Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 written by David Horn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See:

Author : Myoung-Sun Song
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030156974
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanguk Hip Hop written by Myoung-Sun Song and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has Hanguk (South Korean) hip hop developed over the last two decades as a musical, cultural, and artistic entity? How is hip hop understood within historical, sociocultural, and economic matrices of Korean society? How is hip hop represented in Korean media and popular culture? This book utilizes ethnographic methods, including fieldwork research and life timeline interviews with fifty-three influential hip hop artists, in order to answer these questions. It explores the nuanced meaning of hip hop in South Korea, outlining the local, global, and (trans)national flows of musical and cultural exchanges. Throughout the chapters, Korean hip hop is examined through the notion of buran—personal and societal anxiety or uncertainty—and how it manifests in the dimensions of space and place, economy, cultural production, and gender. Ultimately, buran serves as a metaphoric state for Hanguk hip hop in that it continuously evolves within the conditions of Korean society.

Author : Jason Toynbee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136900942
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migrating Music written by Jason Toynbee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: 'world' music, hip hop, bossa nova ... With case studies from across the world this ground-breaking collection shows how migrating music is key to the construction of a still-emerging, global cosmopolitan imagination.

Author : Justin A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037468
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop written by Justin A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Author : Stephen Bruel
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000960013
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remastering Music and Cultural Heritage written by Stephen Bruel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remastering Music and Cultural Heritage presents a detailed account of the culture and practice of remastering music recordings. By investigating the production processes and the social, nostalgic and technological components of remastering practice, the book demonstrates the application of these techniques to iconic recordings by artists including The Beatles, Elton John and Oasis. Through comprehensive interviews with music production professionals directly involved in both the original productions and remastered releases of these iconic recordings – and detailed digital audio analysis – this book offers an extensive insight into music production and remastering practice. Readers learn about the music production techniques behind creating some of the most well-recognised and loved albums of all time, as well as the processes used to create the remasters, to help guide their own projects. Remastering Music and Cultural Heritage is essential reading for students and teachers of music production, professional practitioners and musicians.

Author : Justin A. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190656808
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brithop written by Justin A. Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brithop investigates rap music's politics in the 21st century United Kingdom. In what follows, I argue that this music is partly an extension of, or often a counter to, political discourses happening in other realms of British society. These rappers are essentially "talking back" (hooks 1989, see also Hutton and Burns 2020) to mainstream Britain's political discourses, as "an act of resistance, a political gesture that challenges politics of domination that would render us nameless and voiceless." (hooks 1989: 8) The rappers in this book critique the UK's more conservative narratives, and they express their relationship to Britain in the politically turbulent climate of the new century, providing valuable perspectives which can go unnoticed by those skeptical of or ignorant of hip-hop culture. Through themes of nationalism, history, subculture, politics, humor and identity, this book looks at multiple forms of politics in rap discourses from Wales, Scotland and England. It covers selected hip-hop scenes from 2002-2017, featuring rappers and groups such as The Streets, Goldie Lookin Chain, Akala, Lowkey, Stanley Odd, Loki, Speech Debelle, Lady Sovereign, Shadia Mansour, Shay D, Stormzy, Sleaford Mods, Riz MC and Lethal Bizzle. What follows investigates how rappers in the UK respond to the "postcolonial melancholia" (Gilroy) of post-Empire Britain. In contrast to more visible narratives of national identity in Britain, Brithop tells a different, arguably more important, story"--