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Nairobi Hip Hop Flow combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop's embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines how hip hop artists in Nairobi's underground rap culture engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound by fostering a creative playfulness using bodily movement. This unprecedented study shows how Nairobi artists circulate diasporic blackness while at the same time indigenizing hip hop music to interrogate Kenya's sociopolitical landscape.
| ISBN: | 9780520389793 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2025 |
| Author: | RaShelle R Peck |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 250 pages |
| Series: | Hip Hop Studies |
| Genres: |
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Popular music Theory of music and musicology |
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Nairobi Hip Hop Flow combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop's embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines how hip hop artists in Nairobi's underground rap culture engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound by fostering a creative playfulness using bodily movement. This unprecedented study shows how Nairobi artists circulate diasporic blackness while at the same time indigenizing hip hop music to interrogate Kenya's sociopolitical landscape.
Nairobi Hip Hop Flow features in the following genres: Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Popular music, Theory of music and musicology
Nairobi Hip Hop Flow is available in Hardback, Paperback
Nairobi Hip Hop Flow was written by RaShelle R Peck and published by University of California Press
Nairobi Hip Hop Flow has 250 pages
Yes it is part of Hip Hop Studies series