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Hip-Hop/Rap

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Hip-Hop/Rap is a cultural and artistic movement that originated in the African American communities of the Bronx in the 1970s, characterized by rhythmic vocal style (rapping), DJing, graffiti art, and breakdancing. It serves as a medium for social commentary, self-expression, and community identity, influencing music, fashion, and language globally.
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Hip-Hop/Rap is a cultural and artistic movement that originated in the African American communities of the Bronx in the 1970s, characterized by rhythmic vocal style (rapping), DJing, graffiti art, and breakdancing. It serves as a medium for social commentary, self-expression, and community identity, influencing music, fashion, and language globally.

Key research themes

1. How does hip-hop function as a culturally responsive educational tool and literacy practice in diverse classrooms?

This research area investigates the integration of hip-hop culture and practices into educational settings to enhance literacy skills, engagement, and cultural relevance, especially for marginalized and young students. It considers how hip-hop serves not only as a musical genre but as a comprehensive culture that supports foundational literacy and meets students’ sociolinguistic needs, while addressing educators’ concerns about age-appropriateness and cultural sustaining pedagogy.

Key finding: The study demonstrates that incorporating hip-hop with the help of local artists and older students boosts motivation and authentic literacy engagement among kindergartners and first graders. It details a cultural model that... Read more
Key finding: This work articulates hip-hop as a holistic culture and pedagogical movement emerging from socio-political contexts that engages youth by connecting academic content to their lived experiences. It highlights hip-hop... Read more
Key finding: Although the full text is not provided, this paper aligns with the theme by exploring how hip-hop-based education can contribute to teaching migration and contemporary social issues with cultural responsiveness, likely... Read more

2. How is gender, masculinity, and identity constructed and contested in hip-hop/rap music and culture across diverse global contexts?

This theme addresses the complex portrayals, negotiations, and social implications of gender roles, masculinity ideals, and identity formation in hip-hop across various societies. It includes analyses of gender stereotypes in commercial rap, the performative constructions of masculinity in culturally specific rap battles, and how hip-hop artists of marginalized backgrounds use the medium for self-expression, empowerment, or perpetuation of societal ideologies.

Key finding: The study finds that African American emerging adults both reject and value gender stereotypes portrayed in commercial rap videos, with women critiquing depictions of hypersexualized femininity while valuing expressions of... Read more
Key finding: Analyzing rap battles in Nepal, this paper reveals how performances enact and perpetuate masculinist ideologies, misogyny, homophobia, and transgender marginalization through linguistic aggressions and cultural metaphors. The... Read more
Key finding: Through qualitative interviews and autoethnography, this research finds that Japanese male hip-hop artists appropriate Black American aesthetics and constructions of masculinity to resist traditional Japanese gender norms and... Read more
Key finding: Focusing on Spain’s first female Muslim rapper, this analysis shows how Miss Raisa navigates identity, religion, feminism, and immigrant integration through music and social media. It emphasizes tensions between popular... Read more

3. In what ways do hip-hop and rap serve as platforms for political discourse, identity articulation, and cultural resistance globally?

This research theme explores hip-hop as a site for political expression, identity negotiation, and social activism, especially among marginalized communities, indigenous populations, and diasporic groups. It considers how hip-hop constructs distinct canons, appropriates historical narratives for empowerment, and participates in global conversations about race, culture, and sovereignty, reflecting local specificities while engaging with transnational dynamics.

Key finding: Drawing on over 25 years of scholarship and community engagement, this article conceptualizes Native/Indigenous Hip Hop as an autonomous canon distinct from mainstream hip-hop, grounded in four pillars: the Message (social... Read more
Key finding: The reviewed book explores how Brazilian Black hip-hop artists use cultural productions as a form of 'aquilombamento'—resisting socio-economic precarity, violence, and racial oppression by creating autonomous Black spaces.... Read more
Key finding: The article examines rap music lyrics promoting Afrocentric reinterpretations of classical antiquity, asserting that ancient Greek philosophy and civilization were appropriated from African cultures. It analyzes how these... Read more
Key finding: This paper operationalizes populism theory to analyze how contemporary Greek rap incorporates populist performances characterized by anti-elitism and people-centrism. Through lyrical and performative analysis of Greek rap... Read more

All papers in Hip-Hop/Rap

This research attempts to examine Hossein Nassehi's flute concerto with a sociological approach, relying on Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, and analyze the lack of attention paid to this historical work. Despite Nassehi's fundamental... more
O artigo discute a atualidade da mediação cultural em relação a seus anteceden-tes, a ação cultural e a animação cultural, argumentando que sua renovação não depende apenas de mudanças terminológicas, mas do enfrentamento das... more
This bibliographic guide offers a structured synthesis of scholarship devoted to American Egyptomania from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. It aims to organize a rapidly expanding field of research on the reception of... more
Cash al rock dei Led Zeppelin , facendo di Paul's boutique uno degli esempi più noti di come si possa fare musica originale partendo dai samples. Grazie al loro lavoro per questo disco, i campionatori assursero alla funzione di strumento... more
This study examines the extent to which the communication practices of RAIC and RAIDTec 2025 on social media foster dialogical communication or reproduce a diffusionist communication model. Drawing on Paulo Freire’s theoretical framework,... more
As the United States economy shifted to post-Fordist production models in the late twentieth century, the athletic apparel industry (specifically the brands Nike, Adidas, and Reebok) modified its promotional strategies. Whereas the... more
Epitomized by the athletic sneaker industry's lucrative mining of Black bodies and Black culture, the colonization of the racial "Other" by the forces of Western consumer culture has become a defining feature of late capitalism. However,... more
Based on interviews with 15 sneaker customizers immersed in sneaker culture, we outline how participants perceived the digitization of sneaker culture - particularly social media - as spurring a gradual-but-tangible displacement of... more
Existing studies have shown the dialectics of protest and resistance embedded in Nigeria's hip-hop culture. Contributing to the growing body of research hereon, this study examines the thematic preoccupations of five purposively selected... more
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How do Balinese gamelan and electroacoustic music intersect? This is the question that young Balinese composer I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara seeks to elucidate as de facto leader of a movement of mixed creation for gamelan instruments in... more
A note on reading Gower and Chaucer through Edmund Spenser’s eyes in the eighteenth century.
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L’objectif principal de cet article est d’offrir un accès rapide à une bibliographie essentielle sur l’Égypte chez Platon. En effet, cette thématique n’est abordée que dans un champ d’études très restreint qui fréquemment passe sous... more
In the context of Brazil and Colombia, this article examines a specific form of Islamic conversion among (Afro-)Latin Americans that differs from doctrinal or institutionally driven pathways. Rather than emerging primarily from formal... more
This article investigates Black American Islam as a semiotically mediated New Religious Movement (NRM), hybrid in nature and emerging from conditions of racialized governance, state surveillance, and social marginalization. Focused on the... more
Durant les élections présidentielles de 2016 et 2023 au Gabon, les autorités politiques ont ordonné des coupures de l'accès à internet. Ces interruptions ont eu un impact considérable sur le processus électoral en plongeant la population... more
RESUMO: O intuito deste artigo é apresentar uma parte da produção literária indígena desenvolvida nas Amazônias brasileiras, a partir das perspectivas de identidades em construção, das ancestralidades construídas pelo protagonismo dos... more
En los últimos años, el movimiento hiphop, en un sentido amplio, y el rap, en especial, se han convertido en una de las prácticas musicales, verbales y socioculturales de mayor influencia y vitalidad para los adolescentes de habla hispana... more
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Cet article analyse les positionnements de rappeuses japonaises dans la société japonaise contemporaine, où le féminisme s’énonce sous une sensibilité post-féministe ambivalente. Dans un écosystème musical qui privilégie la visibilité...