Global noise : rap and hip-hop outside the USA /

The 13 essays that comprise Global Noise explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Anglophone and Francophone Canada, Japan and Australia within their social, cultural and ethnic contexts.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mitchell, Tony, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2001.
Series:Music/culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Postcolonial popular music in France : rap music and hip-hop culture in the 1980s and 1990s / André J.M. Prévos
  • Islamic hip-hop vs. Islamophobia : Aki Nawaz, Natacha Atlas, Akhenaton / Ted Swedenburg
  • Urban breakbeat culture : repercussions of hip-hop in the United Kingdom / David Hesmondhalgh & Caspar Melville
  • Rap in Germany : the birth of a genre / Mark Pennay
  • Rap in Bulgaria : between fashion and reality / Claire Levy
  • Rap in the low countries : global dichotomies on a national scale / Mir Wermuth
  • "We are all Malcolm X!" : Negu Gorriak, hip-hop, and the Basque political imaginary / Jacqueline Urla
  • Fightin' da Faida : the Italian posses and hip-hop in Italy / Tony Mitchell
  • A history of Japanese hip-hop : street dance, club scene, pop market / Ian Condry
  • "Who is a dancing hero?" : rap, hip-hop, and dance in Korean popular culture / Sarah Morelli
  • Sydney stylee : hip-hop down under comin' up / Ian Maxwell
  • Kia Kaha! (Be strong!) : Maori and Pacific Islander hip-hop in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Tony Mitchell
  • Rap in Canada : bilingual and multicultural / Roger Chamberland.