French Moves The Cultural Politics of le Hip Hop

Name: French Moves The Cultural Politics of le Hip Hop
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ISBN: 9780199939978

ISBN-10: 0199939977

ISBN-13: 9780199939978

Edition: 2012

Authors: Felicia McCarren

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For more than two decades,le hip hophas shown France's "other" face: danced by minorities associated with immigration and the suburbs, it has channeled rage against racism and unequal opportunity and offered a movement vocabulary for the expression of the multicultural difference that challenges the universalist discourse of the Republic.French hip-hoppers subscribe to black U.S. culture to articulate their own difference but theirmouv'developed differently, championed by a Socialist cultural policy as part of thepatrimoine culturel, instituted as a pedagogy and supported as an art of thebanlieue. In the multicultural mix of "Arabic" North African, African and Asian forms circulating with…

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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.29" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Felicia McCarren is Assistant Professor of French at Tulane University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Politics and Poetics



Hip Hop Citizens: Politics, Culture, and Performance



Hip Hop "Speaks" French: Droit de Citer



Hip Hop as Postcolonial Representation: Farid Berki's Invisible Armada and Exodust



Techniques and Technologies



Dancing in and out of the Box: Franck II Louise's Drop It! and Compagnie Choream's Epsilon



Breaking History: Hï¿½lï¿½ne Cixous' L'histoire terrible mais inach-evï¿½e de Norodom Sihanouk, Roi du Cambodge and Yiphun Chiem's Apsara



Techniques: French Urban Dance in Intellectual Context


Conclusion


Notes


Index