Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

Rollefson, J. Griffith

ISBN 10: 022649621X / ISBN 13: 9780226496214

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2017

About this Item

pp. 304.

Seller Inventory # 371859998

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022649621X
• ISBN 13: 9780226496214
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles. Flip the Script offers a close look at the role of hip hop in Europe, where it has become a politically powerful and commercially successful form of expression for the children and grandchildren of immigrants from former colonies.
 
Through analysis of recorded music and other media, as well as interviews and fieldwork with hip hop communities, J. Griffith Rollefson shows how this music created by black Americans is deployed by Senegalese Parisians, Turkish Berliners, and South Asian Londoners to both differentiate themselves from and relate themselves to the dominant culture. By listening closely to the ways these postcolonial citizens in Europe express their solidarity with African Americans through music, Rollefson shows, we can literally hear the hybrid realities of a global double consciousness.
 

About the Author

J. Griffith Rollefson is associate professor in popular music studies in the Department of Music at University College Cork, National University of Ireland.