Native tongues
Subtitle: an African hip-hop reader
By: [compiled by] P. Khalil Saucier
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781592218370
Subjects: Rap (Music); History and criticism; Hip-hop
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier; title: Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; Rapping against the lack of change : rap music in Mali and Burkina Faso / Daniel Künzler ; Hip-hop political production in West Africa : AURA and its extraordinary stories of Poto-Poto children / Jenny F. MBaye ; Jua Cali-justice : navigating the 'Mainstream-underground' dichotomy in Kenyan hip-hop culture / Caroline Mose ; Colouring the Cape problem space : a hip-hop identity of passions / Remi Warner; title: Part Two: 'We are Africans:' African hip-hop beyond the Motherland: Hip-hop speaks, hip-life answers : global African music / Harry Nii Koney Odamtten ; Le Cauchemar de la France : Blackara's postcolonial hip-hop critique in the City of Light / J. Griffith Rollefson; title: Part Three: The rap-up : conversations and interviews: Putting two heads together : a cross-generational conversation about hip-hop in a changing South Africa / Shaheen Ariefdien and Marlon Burgess ; Bongo flava, hip-hop and 'Local Maasai flavors' : interviews with X Plastaz / Katrina Daly Thompson; title: Part Four: 'Who shot ya?' African hip-hop in focus ; Photos from South Africa / Noelle Theard ; Photos from 'here' and 'there' / Magee McIlvaine.