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Nairobi Hip Hop Flow: Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground Volume 4

Nairobi Hip Hop Flow: Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground Volume 4

Paperback

Series: California Hip Hop Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesHip HopWorld Music

ISBN10: 0520386485
ISBN13: 9780520386488
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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.

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