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Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents an overview of the emergence and development of hip-hop culture in France, French Caribbean, Canada, and Francophone Africa from its origins until today. Contributors discuss the artists’ interactions with media arts, social media, literature, race, political landscapes, as well as hip-hop based education.
Table of ContentsForeword
Marcyliena Morgan
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Alain-Philippe Durand
1. Forty Years of French Rap: Identities in Crescendo
Karim Hammou
Translated from the French by Katie Angus
2. Hip Hop Music and Rap in Cities in Crisis: The Case of Marseille
Jean-Marie Jacono
Translated from the French by André Pettman
3. “Fear of a Black Planet”: The Transnational Racial Politics of Hip-Hop in France, 1990-1991
Samir Meghelli
4. Ghetto Patrimony: Rap and Racialization in France
Paul A. Silverstein
5. Rap Music in Guadeloupe, an Overseas French Department in the Caribbean: 1980s to the Early 2000s
Steve Gadet
Translated from the French by Richard J. Gray II
6. French Rapper-Writers and Activism: Global Black Solidarity and (In)visibility
Stève Puig
7. New Media, New Voices: Booba’s and Sofiane’s Use of Social Networks to Promote Aspiring Rappers
Kathryn Kleppinger
8. Hip-Hop Based Education (HHBE) in Paris and Its Suburbs
Charles Norton
9. The Body Politic of Hip Hop Dance: What Hip Hop Dance’s Relation with French Society and Institutions Tells Us About the Place of Popular Art and its Political Stakes
Hugues Bazin
Translated from the French by André Pettman
10. “Beats Working”: Performance Economics in The Roots (2013) and Divines (2016)
Felicia McCarren
11. Illegal Mural Expressions: Graffiti as an Act of Resistance?
Alain Milon
Translated from the French by Sarah Glasco and Matthew Kemp
12. Of Melody, Markets, and Mobilization: A History of Hip Hop in Dakar, Senegal
Catherine M. Appert
13. Rap Music in Quebec: An Essentially Hybrid Genre
Maxime Delcourt
Translated from the French by Patricia Frederick
14. Alaclair Ensemble’s “Postrigodon”: An Inclusive Rewriting of “Lower-Canada’s” History Applied to Hip-Hop
Ariane Gruet-Pelchat
Translated from the French by Matthew Kemp
