Rap Beyond Resistance: Staging Power in Contemporary Morocco (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
Rap Beyond Resistance: Staging Power in Contemporary Morocco (Pop Music, Culture and Identity) by Cristina Moreno Almeida
English | 2 Oct. 2017 | ISBN: 3319601822 | 181 Pages | PDF | 2.69 MB
English | 2 Oct. 2017 | ISBN: 3319601822 | 181 Pages | PDF | 2.69 MB
This book fills the gap in existing literature by exploring other forms of political discourses in non-Western rap music. Theoretically, it challenges and explores resistance, arguing towards the need for different epistemological frameworks in which to look at narratives of cultural resistance in the Arabic-speaking world. Empirically, it provides an in-depth look at the politics of rap culture in Morocco. Rap Beyond Resistance bridges the humanities and social sciences in order to de-Westernize cultural studies, presenting the political narratives of the Moroccan rap scene beyond secular liberal meanings of resistance. By exploring what is political, this book brings light to a vibrant and varied rap scene diverse in its political discourses – with an emphasis on patriotism and postcolonial national identity – and uncovers different ways in which young artists are being political beyond ‘radical lyrics’.