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Performing Identity/Performing Culture : Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice

by Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
RM55.29 MYR
Performing Identity/Performing Culture : Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice - Thryft
Performing Identity/Performing Culture : Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice - Thryft

Redefine Yourself: Hip Hop's Influence on Identity

This book is a great read for individuals interested in understanding how hip hop culture has shaped young people's understanding and expression of self. Through detailed analysis of hip hop legends and rap texts, Greg Dimitriadis explores how young people at a community center in the Midwest have used hip hop to redefine their Southern traditions, construct notions of history, and cope with the loss of Tupac Shakur. The book provides an insightful intersection of education, media studies, communication, and anthropology that broadens our understanding of young people's relationships with popular culture.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Performing Identity/Performing Culture : Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice

by Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
RM55.29 MYR
ISBN: 9780820451763
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM121.88 MYR
Authors: Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Date of Publication: 2001-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Music, Sociology
Related Topics: Art and Photography, Art History, Design, Photography, Pop Culture, History, Memoir, Race, Social Issues, Social Justice
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 12 readers)

Description

This is the first book-length ethnography of young people and their uses of hip-hop culture. Drawing together historical work on hip hop and rap music as well as four years of research at a local community center, Greg Dimitriadis argues that contemporary youth are increasingly fashioning notions of self and community outside of school in ways that educators have largely ignored. After exploring the historical evolution of hip hop through analysis of important artists and groups such as the Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy, N.W.A., and the Wu-Tang Clan, Dimitriadis demonstrates the ways rap texts have been picked up and used by young people at a local community center in the Midwest. His studies are how two teenagers constructed notions of a Southern tradition through their use of Southern rap artists like Master P and Eightball & MJG; how young people constructed notions of history through viewing the film Panther , a film they connected to hip-hop culture more broadly; and how young people dealt with the life and death of icon Tupac Shakur through the construction of resurrection myths. Drawing on the best impulses of cultural studies, Performing Identity/Performing Culture opens new spaces at the intersections of education, media studies, communication, and anthropology – broadening the kinds of questions we ask about young people and their often misunderstood relationship to and with popular culture.
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Redefine Yourself: Hip Hop's Influence on Identity

This book is a great read for individuals interested in understanding how hip hop culture has shaped young people's understanding and expression of self. Through detailed analysis of hip hop legends and rap texts, Greg Dimitriadis explores how young people at a community center in the Midwest have used hip hop to redefine their Southern traditions, construct notions of history, and cope with the loss of Tupac Shakur. The book provides an insightful intersection of education, media studies, communication, and anthropology that broadens our understanding of young people's relationships with popular culture.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.