| Rap Beyond Resistance: Staging Power in Contemporary Morocco Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Moreno Almeida, Cristina (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319867989 ISBN-13: 9783319867984 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306 |
| Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity |
| Physical Information: 181 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book fills the gap in existing literature by exploring other forms of political discourses in non-Western rap music. Theoretically, it challenges and explores resistance, arguing towards the need for different epistemological frameworks in which to look at narratives of cultural resistance in the Arabic-speaking world. Empirically, it provides an in-depth look at the politics of rap culture in Morocco. Rap Beyond Resistance bridges the humanities and social sciences in order to de-Westernize cultural studies, presenting the political narratives of the Moroccan rap scene beyond secular liberal meanings of resistance. By exploring what is political, this book brings light to a vibrant and varied rap scene diverse in its political discourses-with an emphasis on patriotism and postcolonial national identity-and uncovers different ways in which young artists are being political beyond 'radical lyrics'. |