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Hip Hop at Europe´s Edge: Music, Agency, and Social Change
Adriana N. Helbig
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Description for Hip Hop at Europe´s Edge: Music, Agency, and Social Change
Paperback. Editor(s): Helbig, Adriana N. Num Pages: 324 pages, 1 b&w illus, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1D; AVGR; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 479.
Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central and Eastern Europe has gradually developed unique, local trajectories, a ... Read more
Responding to the development of a lively hip hop culture in Central and Eastern European countries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how a universal model of hip hop serves as a contextually situated platform of cultural exchange and becomes locally inflected. After the Soviet Union fell, hip hop became popular in urban environments in the region, but it has often been stigmatized as inauthentic, due to an apparent lack of connection to African American historical roots and black identity. Originally strongly influenced by aesthetics from the US, hip hop in Central and Eastern Europe has gradually developed unique, local trajectories, a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253023049
SKU
V9780253023049
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About Adriana N. Helbig
Milosz Miszczynski is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Digital Economy at the University of Surrey and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. His current research focuses on production, distribution, and consumption of music in the digital economy.His past work on hip hop includes a book in Polish, edited volumes and ... Read more
Reviews for Hip Hop at Europe´s Edge: Music, Agency, and Social Change
The volume represents a valuable and timely contribution to the study of popular culture in central and eastern Europe. Hip Hop at Europe's Edge will not only appeal to readers interested in contemporary popular culture in central and eastern Europe, but also inspire future research on post-socialism's unique local adaptations of global cultural trends.
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