Full Description
This long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across 11 chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip Hop in Australia, including Emceeing/ music production, Graffiti and Breaking.
The theoretical and methodological frameworks used include ethnographic and autoethnographic research and writing, discourse analysis, Indigenous methodologies, textual analysis and archival research. Some authors present their contributions in academic chapters, while others use creative formats. The book showcases how Hip Hop is understood and lived across numerous settings in Australia, making important contributions to global Hip Hop studies and scholarship in related fields such as popular music, youth culture and First Nations Studies.
It will prove essential reading for students, academics, and practitioners interested in Hip Hop, social justice, popular culture, music and dance in Australia.
Contents
Introduction: Representing Hip Hop in Australia Section 1: Hip Hop Histories, Eras and Evolutions 1. Graffiti and Hip Hop in Australia: An Interview with Matthew MISTERY Peet 2. From Gen X to Gen Y: Hip-Hop Life-Stories in Australia 3. Revisiting Nationalism and Multiculturalism in So-called Australian Hip Hop Section 2: Hip Hop Activism and Politics 4. Hip Hop, Activism and Other Stories (Herstory) 5. 'Hip Hop Crim' - A Discourse Analysis of Conscious First Nations Hip Hop Contesting Australia's Criminal Justice System 6. We Need to Infiltrate Those Spaces: Space-Reclaiming through Counternarratives in First Nations Hip-Hop in Sydney 7. 'Hip-Hop Fam' or a Larrikin Brand? Urthboy and the Bind of the Conscious MC Section 3: Hip Hop Performance Practices and Place 8. Hip Hop Dance Jams and Cyphers 9. Pirlapakarnu Cypher: Beyond Representing Place to Warlpiri Embodiments of Country in Milpirri Hip Hop 10. 'Who is this Imposter?': Women in Australian Underground Hip Hop 11. "In a Good Way There's No BEEF, but the Bad Thing is There's No BEEF": Tensions and Changing Cultural Politics in Sydney's Breaking Scene.
