Title: Flip the script : European hip hop and the politics of postcoloniality /
Authors: Rollefson, J. Griffith
Year: 2017
Subjects: Hip-hop Europe, Western.; Postcolonialism and music.; Music Europe, Western African American influences.; Hip-hop; Music African American influences; Postcolonialism and music; Western Europe
Contents: Introduction: hip hop as postcolonial art and practice -- "J'accuse": hip hop's postcolonial politics in Paris -- Nostalgia "en noir et blanc": Black music and postcoloniality from Sefyu's Paris to Buddy Bolden's New Orleans -- Musical (African) Americanization: strategic essentialism, hybridity, and commerce in Aggro Berlin -- Heisse Waren: hot commodities, "der Neger bonus," and the commercial authentic -- M.I.A..'s "terrorist chic": Black Atlantic music and South Asian postcolonial politics in London -- Marché noir: the hip hop hustle in the City of Light -- "Wherever we go": UKhip hop and the deformation of mastery -- "Straight outta B.C.": differance, defness, and Juice Aleem's precolonial Afrofuturist critique -- Conclusion: hip hop studies and/as postcolonial studies.