Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities

Christopher Dennis

doi:10.5771/9780739150580

Summary

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture—specifically hip-hop and rap—are having on the social identities of younger generations of black Colombians. Along with addressing why and how hip-hop has migrated so effectively to Colombia’s black communities, Dennis introduces readers to some of the country’s most renowned Afro-Colombian hip-hop artists, their musical innovations, and production and distribution practices. Above all, Dennis demonstrates how, through a mode of transculturation, today’s young artists are transforming U.S. hip-hop into a more autonomous art form used for articulating oppositional social and political critiques, reworking ethnic identities, and actively contributing to the reimagining of the Colombian nation.

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop uncovers ways in which young Afro-Colombian performers are attempting to use hip-hop and digital media to bring the perspectives, histories, and expressive forms of their marginalized communities into national and international public consciousness.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2011
Copyright Year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-5056-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-5058-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 181
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Afro-Colombian Historical Context No access
2. Demographics and Socio-Economic Indicators No access
3. Globalization and Neoliberal Reform No access
4. Why Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop and Rap? No access
5. Notes No access
1. Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop Groups No access
2. Production and Distribution No access
3. Notes No access
1. “Hip-Hop Real” No access
2. The Armed Conflict No access
3. The Illicit Drug Trade No access
4. Displacement No access
5. The Urban Experience No access
6. Violence No access
7. Conclusions: The Periphery of the Periphery No access
8. Notes No access
1. Mass-Mediated Transnational Cultural Contact No access
2. Racial Discrimination No access
3. Afro-Colombian Solidarity Movements and Cultural Organizations No access
4. Africa and the Diaspora No access
5. Conclusions: “Pasado, Presente, Futuro” No access
6. Notes No access
1. Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: From Adoption to Adaptation No access
2. “Hip-Hop Real” and Ethnic-Racial Tension No access
3. Mainstream Audiences and Growing Commercial Success No access
4. Conclusions: An Afro-Colombian Reading No access
5. Notes No access
1. Mestizaje and Music Nationalism No access
2. Multiculturalism and Music Diversification No access
3. Ethnic Pride as an Expression of Colombian Nationhood No access
4. Conclusions: Colombia’s Hip-Hop Nation No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Next Chapter No access
2. Notes No access
Selected Discography No access Pages 163 - 164
Bibliography No access Pages 165 - 172
Index No access Pages 173 - 181