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Global Hiphop

Readings

  • Jeff Chang, “It’s a Hip-Hop World,” Foreign Policy, October 12, 2009.
  • H. Samy Alim, “Verbal mujahidin in the transglobal Hip Hop umma: Islam, discursive struggle, and the weapons of mass culture,” Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture (New York & London: Routledge, 2006), 20-50.
  • Ian Condry, “The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music,” in Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger eds., Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000), 166-182.

Videos

La Haine (Hate) (1995, France)
Miyachi, “Wakarimasen” (2018, US and Japan)
San E, “Wanna Be Rapper” (2018, South Korea)

Music