Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia

By: Sudiipta Dowsett and Lucas Marie and Dianne Rodger and Grant Leigh Saunders

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Synopsis: This long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across 11 chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip Hop in Australia, including Emceeing/ music production, Graffiti and Breaking.The theoretical and methodological frameworks used include ethnographic and autoethnographic research and writing, discourse analysis, Indigenous methodologies, textual analysis and archival research. Some authors present their contributions in academic chapters, while others use creative formats. The book showcases how Hip Hop is understood and lived across numerous settings in Australia, making important contributions to global Hip Hop studies and scholarship in related fields such as popular music, youth culture and First Nations Studies.It will prove essential reading for students, academics, and practitioners interested in Hip Hop, social justice, popular culture, music and dance in Australia.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040146033
Related ISBNs:: 9781003392811, 9781040146019, 9781032492506, 9781032492490
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/17/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Sudiipta Dowsett, Lucas Marie, Dianne Rodger and Grant Leigh Saunders
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Music, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sudiipta Dowsett
Edited by:: Lucas Marie
Edited by:: Dianne Rodger
Edited by:: Grant Leigh Saunders