Cape Verde, Let´s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal
Derek Pardue
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Description for Cape Verde, Let´s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal
Hardback. Series: Interp Culture New Millennium. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 black and white photographs, 1 map, discography. BIC Classification: JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language but its culture and history.
Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language but its culture and history.
Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, Derek Pardue introduces Lisbon's kriolu rap scene and its role in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. Pardue demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a ... Read more
Deftly shifting from domestic to public spaces and from social media to ethnographic theory, Pardue describes an overlooked phenomenon transforming Portugal, one sure to have parallels in former colonial powers across twenty-first-century Europe.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Interp Culture New Millennium
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039676
SKU
V9780252039676
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About Derek Pardue
Derek Pardue is an assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University and author of Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop.
Reviews for Cape Verde, Let´s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more