The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan (Jul 14, 2008)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 219 pages
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
ISBN: 9780230609617

    Description of The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves

    Asserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postmodernity, Osumare explores the intricacies of this phenomenon from the beginning of the Twenty-First century, tracing the aesthetic and socio-political path of the currency of hip hop across the globe.

    Halifu Osumare

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