Brithop: The Politics of UK Rap in the New Century

ISBN-13: 9780190656805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Justin A. Williams

Recenzje

Justin A. Williams' BRITHOP is a literal tour de force,taking readers on a journey through twenty-first century UK rap and helping them hear how British emcees use beats and rhymes to make their voices heard. With a keen ear for accents, poetic allusions, and political commentary, Williams explores a wide range of artists through the lenses of not only race, gender, and ethnicity, but also class, region, and nationality. By highlighting the vibrancy of Great Britain's multicultural popular music, BRITHOP puts two fingers up to Brexit-era nationalism and refutes narrow conceptions of citizenship and belonging. This is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary British society as well as hip-hop outside of the United States.

O autorze

Justin A. Williams is Senior Lecturer in music at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip- Hop (2013), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hip- Hop (2015), and coeditor (with Katherine Williams) of The Cambridge Companion to the Singer- Songwriter (2016) and The Singer- Songwriter Handbook (2017). He has also written on crowdfunding, progressive metal, and Hamilton: An American Musical.