Egyptian hip-hop expressions from the underground = al-Hīb hūb al-miṣrī : taʿbīrāt min taḥta 'l-arḍ

"This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to political and social upheaval and change. It reveals how rappers approached...

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1. Verfasser: Weis, Ellen R. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cairo ; New York The American University in Cairo Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Cairo papers in social science volume 34, number 1
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Zusammenfassung:"This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to political and social upheaval and change. It reveals how rappers approached and reformulated the genre in times of revolution and stasis to reveal how rap acts as a multi-layered form of expression. More specifically, it examines the location of the art form within the broader history of oppositional cultural expression in Egypt, outlining the artists' oppositions to various hegemonic structures and critically deconstructing them to reveal that they often reflect dominant ideology"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
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Beschreibung:119 Seiten
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ISBN:9781649032317
978-1-64903-231-7