{"product_id":"nairobi-hip-hop-flow-diasporic-blackness-and-embodied-performance-in-the-underground-volume-4-hardcover","title":"Nairobi Hip Hop Flow: Diasporic Blackness and Embodied Performance in the Underground Volume 4 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRashelle R. Peck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNairobi Hip Hop Flow\u003c\/i\u003e 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 how hip hop artists in Nairobi's underground rap culture engage with political seriousness in lyrics and sound by fostering a creative playfulness using bodily movement. This unprecedented study shows how Nairobi artists circulate diasporic blackness while at the same time indigenizing hip hop music to interrogate Kenya's sociopolitical landscape.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA much-needed addition to scholarship on Kenya and global hip hop studies. RaShelle Peck takes care to not examine hip hop culture in Kenya as if it is completely independent of the culture anywhere else, or as if it is an imitation of American hip hop. Instead, she appropriately places Kenyan hip hop within broader hip hop studies, while recognizing its unique identity.--Msia Kibona Clark, author of \u003ci\u003eHip-Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A remarkable study that takes us into the heart of Nairobi hip hop and introduces a novel approach in the corporeality of hip hop. Peck demonstrates not only what is meant by hip hop flow, but how Kenyan hip hop artists embody such a practice.\"--Quentin Williams, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eNeva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism, and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Peck offers a clear intervention into the diasporic and transnational elements of hip hop by exploring the distinctive verbal flows, production styles, and sociopolitical dimensions of Nairobi hip hop, while also relating her account to broader histories of hip hop and global formations of blackness that transcend and complicate the local.\"--Carter Mathes, author of \u003ci\u003eImagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaShelle R. Peck\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Race Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45892870504645,"sku":"9780520389793","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/OrTj9mUXX9780520389793.webp?v=1771918818","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/nairobi-hip-hop-flow-diasporic-blackness-and-embodied-performance-in-the-underground-volume-4-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}