Following the path of hip hop around the world
Hip-hop has moved far from its roots in African-American culture, a journey charted in
a new book edited by UTS academic Dr Tony Mitchell.Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA contains 13 essays exploring the hip-hop scenes of Europe, Canada, Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It has been published in the US by Wesleyan University Press.
'Global Noise looks at how hip-hop has been 'indigenised' by performers around the world who've adapted the template to fit their own language and political concerns,' Dr Mitchell said.
'While the genre in America now seems cliched and brutal and lacks any political perspective, elsewhere rappers with divergent backgrounds of race, nationality, class and gender are using the form as a powerful expression of opposition and resistance.'
Anyone interested in investigating hip hop as a subculture will be pleased to know that this book is available in the
Architecture/Music Library.
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