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The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop

Power Moves

Palgrave Macmillan, Published: July 2008, ISBN: 978-0-230-60961-7, ISBN-10: 0-230-60961-9,Trim: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 240 pages, 12 bw photos,

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This book explores how a vital, expressive culture, which began in a New York black and Latino impoverished working-class community, has become a global delineating sign of the new millennium.

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"Halifu Osumare's reach into the global importance of the [hip-hop] genre is a much needed cultural reclamation."--Chuck D, Public Enemy

"Halifu Osumare's work--a power move in and of itself--compels us to acknowledge the power of technology and capitalism to co-opt and transform a culture-specific phenomenon into a global assault...Highly recommended."--Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Culture

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Halifu Osumare

Halifu Osumare is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at University of California, Davis

Introduction: Power Moves from the Hip Hop Nation to the Hip Hop Globe * Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes, and Def Moves: The Africanist Aesthetic Meets the Hip Hop Globe * Beat Streets in the Global Hood: Hip Hop's Connective Marginalities * Props to the Local Boyz: Hip Hop Culture in Hawai'i * "It's All about the Benjamins:" Postmodernism and Hip Hop's Appropriation

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