Hip-hop authenticity and the London scene : living out authenticity in popular music / Laura Speers.
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TextSeries: Routledge studies in popular musicPublisher: London : Routledge, 2019Description: 164 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367231385 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Rap (Music) -- England -- London -- History and criticism | Hip-hop -- England -- London -- History | Music | MusicDDC classification: 782.4'21649'09421 Summary: 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.
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Originally published: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
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.
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