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Australian Indigenous Hip Hop
The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Spirituality
Routledge Studies in Hip Hop and Religion Series
Author: Minestrelli Chiara
Language: EnglishSubjects for Australian Indigenous Hip Hop:
Keywords
Indigenous Hip Hop; Indigenous Rappers; Chiara Minestrelli; Hip Hop; hip hop and religion; Aboriginal Hip Hop; Indigenous Youth; Australia; Wire MC; religious studies; Australian Public Sphere; indigenous studies; Warumpi Band; spirituality; Australian Hip Hop; cultural identity; Hip Hop Community; politics of music; AAPA; indigeneity; Call Australia Home; authenticity; Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri; dominant values; Possum Skin Cloak; political activism; Hip Hop Workshop; religious practices; Indigenous Women; aesthetics; TLK; performativity; GHHN; hip hop poetics; Australian Indigenous People; Transcultural Connections; ANZAC Day; embodied performance; NAIDOC Week; insider/outsider position; Australian Indigenous Women; glocalisation; Adam Goodes; glocality; African Americans; transcultural processes; Blackness; The Last Kinection; Yung Warriors; Aboriginal youth; Aboriginal feminist view; Indigenous counter public sphere; Selwyn Burns; Nathan Lovett-Murray; Gary Murray; Robert ‘Robbie’ Thorpe; Caper; Mau Power; Rival MC; Munkimuk; Radical Son; Miss Hood
Publication date: 05-2018
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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Add to cart the book of Minestrelli ChiaraPublication date: 10-2016
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Hardback
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This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society. Focusing on the aesthetics, the language, and the performativity of Hip Hop, this book pays attention to the life stance, the philosophy, and the spiritual beliefs of Australian Indigenous Hip Hop artists as ?glocal? producers and consumers. With Hip Hop as its main point of analysis, the author investigates, interrogates, and challenges categories and preconceived ideas about the critical notions of authenticity, ?Indigenous? and dominant values, spiritual practices, and political activism. Maintaining the emphasis on the importance of adopting decolonizing research strategies, the author utilises qualitative and ethnographic methods of data collection, such as semi-structured interviews, informal conversations, participant observation, and fieldwork notes. Collaborators and participants shed light on some of the dynamics underlying their musical decisions and their view within discussions on representations of ?Indigenous identity and politics?. Looking at the Indigenous rappers? local and global aspirations, this study shows that, by counteracting hegemonic narratives through their unique stories, Indigenous rappers have utilised Hip Hop as an expressive means to empower themselves and their audiences, entertain, and revive their Elders? culture in ways that are contextual to the society they live in.
Introduction: Culture on the Stage of History: The Past Is Present in ‘Indigenous Hip Hop’
Chapter 1: "The Black from Down-Unda": Contact Zones and Cultures of Black Resistance
Chapter 2: "2 Black 2 Strong": The Politics of Blackness and Identification
Chapter 3: ‘Indigenous Hip Hop’: The Politics of Identity and Representation
Chapter 4: "Know Our True Identity": Indigenous Articulations of Identity through Kin, Place, and Spirituality
Chapter 5: Hip Hop and Australian Indigenous Youth: New Modes of Political Participation
Conclusion: ‘Indigenous Hip Hop’: History in the making
Chiara Minestrelli holds a PhD in Australian Indigenous studies from Monash University (2015). She is visiting professor in the Africana Studies Program at Lehigh University. She has published on Australian Indigenous literature and Hip Hop and Australian Indigenous Hip Hop.