The Organic Globalizer: Hip hop, political development, and movement culture

✍ Scribed by Christopher Malone; George Martinez, Jr. (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society’s focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage in political activism and participation. Collectively, the essays assert hip hop’s importance as an “organic globalizer:” no matter its pervasiveness or reach around the world, hip-hop ultimately remains a grassroots phenomenon that is born of the community from which it permeates. Hip hop, then, holds promise through three separate but related avenues: (1) through cultural awareness and identification/recognition of voices of marginalized communities through music and art; (2) through social creation and the institutionalization of independent alternative institutions and non-profit organizations in civil society geared toward social and economic justice; and (3) through political activism and participation in which demands are articulated and made on the state.

✦ Table of Contents

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Contributors
1 The organic globalizer Christopher Malone and George Martinez, Jr.
2 No church in the wild: Politics, morality, and hip hop in the Political Science classroom Craig Douglas Albert
3 (Re)building the cypher: Fulfilling the promise of hip hop for liberation Paul J. Kuttner and Mariama White-Hammond
4 Men or monsters? The applied uses of the commercial rap artist Joy Boggs
5 Copyright outlaws and hip hop moguls: Intellectual property law and the development of hip hop music Richard Schur
6 Whirl trade: The peculiar image of hip hop in the global economies Fahamu Pecou
7 Liberation hip hop: Palestinian hip hop and peaceful resistance Denise DeGarmo and E. Duff Wrobbel
8 Asserting identity through music: Indigenous hip hop and self-empowerment Anne Flaherty
9 Hip hop and the dialects of political awareness: Between branding banality and authenticity in Central European rap Barbara Franz
10 Representations of Chinese-ness in Afro-Cuban hip hop during post-Soviet era Cuba Angela Ju
11 The politics of violence, hustling, and contempt in the Oakland, CA rap music scene H. Lavar Pope
12 The belly of the beast Keesha M. Middlemass
13 All day, all week, occupy all streets! Race, class, and hip hop in the Occupy Movement Christopher Malone, George Martinez, Jr., and Davina Anderson
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