{"product_id":"hip-hop-at-europes-edge-9780253022738","title":"Hip Hop at Europes Edge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a real treasure trove, full of fascinating stories. It acts as a fine example of academic inquiry that creatively probes hip-hop's practices, providing context for the form's usage across the Eastern Bloc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors of this edited volume do not romanticize and heroize the genre by automatically equating it with political opposition, a fate often suffered by rock before. Instead, the book has to be given much credit for presenting a very nuanced picture of hip hop's entanglement—or non-entanglement, for that matter—with politics in this wide stretch of the world, past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume represents a valuable and timely contribution to the study of popular culture in central and eastern Europe. \u003cem\u003eHip Hop at Europe's Edge\u003c\/em\u003e will not only appeal to readers interested in contemporary popular culture in central and eastern Europe, but also inspire future research on post-socialism's unique local adaptations of global cultural trends.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reviewed book is an important contribution to existing scholarship on hip-hop culture. It enhances the history of hip-hop with knowledge of how the idioms of this genre have been adopted and reincarnated through a prism of east European culture. The value of the book should also be weighed in the context of colonial\/post-colonial and communist\/post-communist studies. The authors show how hip-hop has served social and political needs during the challenging period of transition from communism to capitalism, and how it continues to help newly-independent nation-states define their new status in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall, \u003ci\u003eHip Hop at Europe's Edge\u003c\/i\u003e is a notable addition to hip-hop and music scholarship. It is increasingly timely, given current geopolitical affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e * Notes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll in all, with its interdisciplinary approaches, the volume makes an important step in opening up a hitherto overlooked region for the study of hip hop. It is therefore a highly welcome addition to the growing number of publications making research of hip hop in Europe available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e * Music and Letters *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \/ Adriana Helbig and Milosz Miszczynski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Hip Hop, Postsocialism, and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e1. Rapping into Power: The Use of Hip Hop in Albanian Politics \/ Gentian Elezi and Elona Toska\u003cbr\u003e2. Nothing Left to Lose: Hip Hop in Bosnia-Herzegovina \/ Jasmin Mujanović\u003cbr\u003e3. Russian Rap in the Era of Vladimir Putin \/ Philip Ewell\u003cbr\u003e4. Rap Music as a Cultural Mediator in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia \/ Alexandra Baladina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Hip Hop and Emerging Market Economies\u003cbr\u003e5. Diesel Power: Serbian Hip Hop from the Pleasure of the Privileged to Mass Youth Culture \/ Goran Musić and Predrag Vukčević\u003cbr\u003e6. \"The Underground is for Beggars\": Slovak Rap at the Center of National Popular Culture \/ Peter Barrer\u003cbr\u003e7. Music, Technology, and Shifts in Popular Culture: Making Hip Hop in e-Estonia \/ Triin Vallaste\u003cbr\u003e8. Wearing Nikes for a Reason: A Critical Analysis of Brand Usage in Polish Rap \/ Milosz Miszczynski and Przemyslaw Tomaszewski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Hip Hop on the Margins\u003cbr\u003e9. Cosmopolitan Inscriptions? Mimicry, Rap, and Rurbanity in Post-socialist Albania \/ Nicholas Tochka \u003cbr\u003e10. Violence as Existential Punctuation: Russian Hip Hop in the Age of Late Capitalism \/ Alexandre Gontchar\u003cbr\u003e11. Unmasking Expressions in Turkish Rap\/Hip Hop Culture: Contestation and Construction of Alternatıve Identities Through Localizatıon in Arabesk Music \/ Nuran Erol Işik and Murat Can Basaran\u003cbr\u003e12. Hip Hop as a Means of Flight from 'Gypsy Ghetto' in Eastern Europe \/ Michal Ruzicka, Alena Kajanova, Veronika Zvánovcová, and Tomas Mrhalek\u003cbr\u003e13. Rapping the Changes in North-East Siberia: Hip Hop, Urbanization, and Sakha Ethnicity \/ Aimar Ventsel and Eleanor Peers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4: Hip Hop and Global Circulations of Blackness\u003cbr\u003e14. \u003ci\u003eLa haine et les autres crimes\u003c\/i\u003e: Ghettocentric Imagery in Serbian Hip Hop Videos \/ Irena Šentevska \u003cbr\u003e15. The Power of the Words: Discourses of Authenticity in Czech Rap Music \/ Anna Oravcová\u003cbr\u003e16. \"Keep it 360\": (Re)envisioning The Cultural and Racial Roots of Hip Hop through DJ Rhetoric and Ethnography \/ Todd Craig\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400559108439,"sku":"9780253022738","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253022738.jpg?v=1730470979","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hip-hop-at-europes-edge-9780253022738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}