Hip hop versus rap : an ethnography of the cultural politics of new hip hop practices

摘要: Using field observations, interview narratives, and lyrical analysis, this thesis argues that the increasing presence of hip hop arts in social spheres not popularly associated with such as community activism, school-based education theatre is traceable to an intra cultural political struggle I term ‘hip versus rap’. Hip rap opposes notion a temporally prior, authentic culture its degeneration into commercial ‘anti-social’ music. As redemptive discourse seeks annex socially responsible from popular caricature by culturally exogenous interests. part progressive grassroots, hop’s extension new educational artistic domains thus marks, at one level, continuation longstanding black diaspora struggles around race cooptation. Correspondingly, hallmark pedagogic practices on ground continuous reflexive commentary uses which can should be put. These practices, moreover, are philosophically politically heterogeneous respect their sources, motives, output. equally serve racial absolutism mysticism, hand, and, other, avowed commitment innovation troubling fixed ethnic borders. Of equal significance, however, ‘communitarian’ ‘grassroots’ turn also related emerging forms municipal state sponsorship. In conditions risk individualisation youth services seen needing far possible fashioned dispositions preferences ‘at-risk’ users - or consumers. This means another signal feature – particularly project way it marks convergent point vernacular politics histories historically novel approaches support, control regulation problem youth.