Nairobi Hip Hop Flow: Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground by RaShelle R. Peck ISBN 9780520386488, 9780520386495, 9780520389793, 0520386485, 0520386493, 0520389794 instant download

Nairobi Hip Hop Flow: Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground by RaShelle R. Peck ISBN 9780520386488, 9780520386495, 9780520389793, 0520386485, 0520386493, 0520389794 instant download

Nairobi Hip Hop Flow is an interdisciplinary study that combines ethnographic methods, political history, and music and performance analysis to illustrate the richness of hip hop's embodied performance practices. RaShelle R. Peck examines underground rap culture in Nairobi to illustrate how hip hop artists engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound and foster a creative playfulness using bodily movement. Through these artists' embodiments, a persistent diasporic blackness circulates, indigenizing the music and working alongside lyrical content to interrogate Kenya's sociopolitical landscape. 
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Peck presents an unprecedented study of Nairobi artists' interactions with localized lyrics and globally signified performative, masculinist, and diasporic embodiments--one that is critical for understanding how hip hop espouses a globalized locality.