Feature: How Did Hip Hop Make Its Way to the Arab World?
PRESENTER
Maha Kamel
ORIGINAL CITY
Washington DC
Original Date
April 22, 2018
Description
Music serves as an expressive platform through which to view emerging identities and ideologies. Today, hip hop is the stage where Arabs and the Arab diaspora consciousness and identity politics are being expressed. How did the art form make its way to the Arab world and what makes it unique from other Arab music? This presentation explores the history of Arab Hip Hop, Arab influences on American Hip Hop, and what the Hip Hop movement in the Middle East shows us about a changing Arab culture.
Sources & Future References
UMS Aswat- Celebrating the Golden Age of Arab Music Resource Guide
Code switching and the globalisation of popular music: The case of North African rai and rap
Emotion, Performance, and Temporality in Arab Music: Reflections on Tarab
Hip Hop Inspired by the Arab Spring, Public Radio International, 2013
Hip Hop & Diaspora: Connecting the Arab Spring, Arab Media and Society, Summer 2011
Terkourafi, Marina, ed. The languages of global hip hop. A&C Black, 2010.
Kahf, Usama. "Arabic Hip Hop: Claims of authenticity and identity of a new genre." Journal of Popular Music Studies 19, no. 4 (2007): 359-385.
Maira, Sunaina. "" We Ain't Missing": Palestinian Hip Hop—A Transnational Youth Movement." CR: The New Centennial Review 8, no. 2 (2008): 161-192.
El Zein, Rayya. “From ‘Hip Hop Revolutionaries’ to ‘Terrorist- Thugs’: ‘Blackwashing’ between the Arab Spring and the War on Terror.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 5.1 (2016). Web. 7 May 2016.
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