A sharp analysis. The author makes an accurate diagnosis of the poetics of production of political-cultural and identity-related statements, revealing a politics of difference radically permeated by the weight of the postcolonial memory and history in the contemporary Cape Verdean and Portuguese contexts.
Victor Barros, University of Coimbra A compelling interdisciplinary study of identity and citizenship among Cape Verdean rappers ... Read morebased in contemporary Lisbon. Building upon his groundbreaking work on Brazilian hip-hop, Pardue shifts his focus across the Atlantic by incorporating nodal points of the Lusophone triangle (Portugal, Cape Verde, and Brazil) that share common histories based on colonialism and slavery, where hybrid cultures have emerged and complex postcolonial entanglements continue to evolve.
Fernando Arenas, author of Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil Cutting edge. While plenty of books have raised issues of cultural practice and citizenship, few
if any
focus on expressive culture. Pardue has already established himself as a scholar of hip-hop and he brings a depth and richness of experience from his earlier work on Brazil to see the full challenge that Cape Verdean rappers pose not just to Portugal but to Europe and Europeanness.
Marissa Moorman, author of Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times Show Less