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Hip Hop Ukraine Music, Race, and African Migration

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ISBN-10: 0253012007

ISBN-13: 9780253012005

Edition: 2014

Authors: Adriana N. Helbig, Adriana N. Miszczynski

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In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter into a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in Ukraine. Adriana Helbig combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces where an interracial youth culture can speak to issues of human rights and racial equality. She maps the complex trajectories of musical influence--African, Soviet, American-- to show how hip hop has become a site of social protest in post-socialist society and a vehicle for social…    
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Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144

Preface to the Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series
List of PURLs
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Music and Black Identity in the Soviet Union
Music and Black Experiences in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Commercial and Underground Hip Hop in Ukraine
Hip Hop Fusion
Hip Hop in Uganda
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography