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Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
Description
Close to the Edge tells the stories of a global generation that came of age with hip hop. Part memoir, part social history, the book relates the author's experiences as she traverses the hop hop globe, from Australia to Detroit and from Havana to Caracas. The book explores the elements of hip hop culture - rapping, beat making, b-boying, d-jaying, and graffiti - around the world. Close to the Edge narrates a search for solidarities across borders, a document of the diverse histories, misunderstandings and fissures that hip hop engendered as it went global, and a powerful demonstration of the power of music to forge radical political alliances.Author description
SUJATHA FERNANDES is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Centre, City University of New York. She is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures and Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9781844677412
- : Verso Books
- : Verso Books
- : September 2011
- : 228mm X 153mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : September 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 208
- : 306.1
- : Paperback
- : Sujatha Fernandes
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