La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades (Global Latin/o Americas)
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (649 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M1C05UQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 458 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
La Verdad contributes to a reflection on the interrelationship among hip hop, culture, and identity, but more specifically it presents a collective argument on the glocalization of hip hop. “This volume forges a new path in the critical debates on hip hop by studying the global engagement of Latinos with hip hop, one in which a transnational lens becomes absolutely necessary. It examines the globalization of the genre as well, including the many ways it has been appropriated, transformed, reinvented, and used as a critical tool for a diversity of social causes among Latinos and Latin Americans.” —Ignacio Corona, coeditor of Postnational Musical Identities: Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario
And while there is an extensive body of work on U.S. Artists like Mellow Man Ace and Kid Frost opened doors by infusing Spanish into their lyrics, calling for racial and social equality; others employed hip hop to comment on the effects of neo-liberalization and global capital. In recent decades, the cultural exchange has expanded—the music traveling from the United States to Latin America and back as visual artists, music producers, MCs, vocalists, and dancers combine their Latin cultures with influences from north of the U.S. From its earliest days, hip hop was more than just music, encapsulating the ideas of community and exchange. From graffitera crews in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to Mexican hip hop in New York, from Aymara rap in Bolivia to Chicano rap in Taiwan, this volume explodes stereotypes of who and how hip hop is consumed, lived, and performed. Examining hip hop movements in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Aymara, and Creole, La Verdad demonstrates that Latino hip hop is a multilingual expression of gender, indigeneity, activism, and social justice.. border to create new artistic experiences. hip hop, it continues to evolve in an increasingly multilingual, multiethnic, intergener