Kendra Salois

Values That Pay

Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life

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Produktbeschreibung

"Today, Morocco's hip hop artists are vital to their country's reputation as diverse, creative, and modern. But in the 1990s and 2000s, teenage amateurs shaped their craft and ideals together as the profound socioeconomic changes of neoliberalization swept through their neighborhoods. Values That Pay traces Moroccan hip hop's trajectory from sidewalk cyphers and bedroom studios to royal commendations and international festivals. Kendra Salois draws from more than ten years of research into her interlocutors' music and moral reasoning to frame this institutionalization around the constitutive tensions of hip hop aesthetics and neoliberal life. Entrepreneurial artists respond to their unavoidable complicity with an extractive state through aesthetic and interpersonal sincerity, educating their fans on the risks and responsibilities of contemporary citizenship. Salois argues that over the past forty years, Moroccan hip hop practitioners have transformed not only themselves but also what it means to be an ethical citizen in a deeply unequal nation"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780520379763
• ISBN-10: 0520379764
• Artikelnr.: 71955422

Autorenporträt

Kendra Salois studies the ways musicians make meaning from systems that do not serve them for insights into a more just future. She is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at American University in Washington, DC.