Cristina Moreno Almeida

Rap Beyond Resistance

Staging Power in Contemporary Morocco

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book fills the gap in existing literature by exploring other forms of political discourses in non-Western rap music. Theoretically, it challenges and explores resistance, arguing towards the need for different epistemological frameworks in which to look at narratives of cultural resistance in the Arabic-speaking world. Empirically, it provides an in-depth look at the politics of rap culture in Morocco. Rap Beyond Resistance bridges the humanities and social sciences in order to de-Westernize cultural studies, presenting the political narratives of the Moroccan rap scene beyond secular liberal meanings of resistance. By exploring what is political, this book brings light to a vibrant and varied rap scene diverse in its political discourses-with an emphasis on patriotism and postcolonial national identity-and uncovers different ways in which young artists are being political beyond 'radical lyrics'.

Produktdetails

• Pop Music, Culture and Identity
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-60182-3
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9783319601823
• ISBN-10: 3319601822
• Artikelnr.: 48159610

Autorenporträt

Cristina Moreno Almeida is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King's College London, UK, and a visiting fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Deciphering Moroccan 'Cool'.- 3. Rap and the Revival of Patriotism.- 4. Branding Patriotism, Commodifying Resistance.- 5. Visual Representations of Power: Urban Spaces and Rooftops.- 6. Economies of Resistance.