With the United Kingdom politically more divided than ever, author Justin A. Williams finds new hope in an often-neglected figure: the British rapper. Through themes of nationalism, history, subculture, politics, humor, and identity, Brithop offers insightful new perspectives from rappers based in Wales, Scotland, and England.
With the United Kingdom politically more divided than ever, author Justin A. Williams finds new hope in an often-neglected figure: the British rapper. Through themes of nationalism, history, subculture, politics, humor, and identity, Brithop offers insightful new perspectives from rappers based in Wales, Scotland, and England.
Justin A. Williams is Senior Lecturer in music at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip- Hop (2013), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hip- Hop (2015), and coeditor (with Katherine Williams) of The Cambridge Companion to the Singer- Songwriter (2016) and The Singer- Songwriter Handbook (2017). He has also written on crowdfunding, progressive metal, and Hamilton: An American Musical.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Chapter 1: Introduction * Rapping Back to the Postcolonial Melancholia of 21st Century Britain * Chapter 2: Nationalism * "My England": Banal Nationalism, Discourses and Counter-narratives * Chapter 3: History * Rapping Postcoloniality: Akala's "The Thieves Banquet" and Neocolonial Critique * Chapter 4: Subculture/Style * Punk Aesthetics in Sleaford Mods and Lethal Bizzle * Chapter 5: Politics * "Colonized by Wankers": Performing the Scottish Independence Debate through Hip-hop * Chapter 6: Humor * Stereotypes and Belonging in the Parody Videos of Goldie Lookin Chain and Bricka Bricka * Chapter 7: Politics, Identity, and Belonging * British Rappers of the Middle Eastern Diaspora * Conclusion * British Rap in the Age of Grenfell and Brexit * Appendix: Ch. 5 lyrics * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Chapter 1: Introduction * Rapping Back to the Postcolonial Melancholia of 21st Century Britain * Chapter 2: Nationalism * "My England": Banal Nationalism, Discourses and Counter-narratives * Chapter 3: History * Rapping Postcoloniality: Akala's "The Thieves Banquet" and Neocolonial Critique * Chapter 4: Subculture/Style * Punk Aesthetics in Sleaford Mods and Lethal Bizzle * Chapter 5: Politics * "Colonized by Wankers": Performing the Scottish Independence Debate through Hip-hop * Chapter 6: Humor * Stereotypes and Belonging in the Parody Videos of Goldie Lookin Chain and Bricka Bricka * Chapter 7: Politics, Identity, and Belonging * British Rappers of the Middle Eastern Diaspora * Conclusion * British Rap in the Age of Grenfell and Brexit * Appendix: Ch. 5 lyrics * Bibliography * Index
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