Description
Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene
Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music
Routledge Studies in Popular Music Series
Author: Speers Laura
Language: EnglishKeywords
UK Hip Hop; American Music; London Hip Hop Scene; Authenticity; Hip Hop Authenticity; British Popular Music; Global Hip Hop; Contemporary Music; Rapper Authenticity; Cultural Production; Hip Hop Scene; Cultural Studies; 56th Annual Grammy Awards; Global Hip-Hop; Global Hip Hop Nation; Hip Hop; Make Hip Hop; Hip-Hop; Boom Bap; London; UK Artist; London Hip-Hop; Dialectical Critical Realism; Music; Contemporary Society; Music Commercialization; Emergent Human Capacity; Music and Globalization; Tinie Tempah; Popular Music; Country Music; Rap; African American Art Form; Rapper; Kool Herc; Research; Ice Ice Baby; Urban Studies; Rapper Identity; Youth Culture; UK Garage; Young Men; Stratified Integration; Tinchy Stryder; UK Chart
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In Print (Delivery period: 14 days).
Add to cart the book of Speers LauraPublication date: 02-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Approximative price 172.36 €
In Print (Delivery period: 14 days).
Add to cart the book of Speers LauraPublication date: 02-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop ? what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices, identities, and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene, the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop, and the dynamics of cultural appropriation, globalization, marketization, and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic, theoretical, and cultural analysis.
Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ?live out? authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research, and for other music genres such as punk, rock and roll, country, and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity.
Introduction
1. Keepin’ it Real: Authenticity Debates and Global Hip-Hop
2. Setting the Scene: The Changing Context of the London Hip-Hop Scene
3. Negotiating Struggle in Everyday Life
4. Strategies and Tactics: Living Out Authenticity
5. Towards a New Conceptualization of Authenticity
Laura Speers is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK. Her research interests include popular music, creativity and everyday life.
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