| 书目名称 | Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi |
| 副标题 | Reppin‘ the Flames |
| 编辑 | Ken Lipenga Jr. |
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| 概述 | Identifies how Malawians have adapted hip hop styles for their local context.Illustrates how Malawian youth use hip hop music to exercise agency.Refutes stereotypes about "waithood" among Malawian you |
| 丛书名称 | Pop Music, Culture and Identity |
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| 描述 | .Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi. is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop. It studies the language and content of contemporary Malawian hip hop as a window onto the country‘s youth culture as Malawian young people negotiate what scholar Alcinda Honwana calls ‘waithood,‘ or the condition, common among Malawian youth, of lacking opportunities to advance from a situation of dependence and being stuck in a state of relative childhood. The book argues that rap music made by Malawian youth music speaks of – and represents, through its very agency – their need to break out of this stagnant state. After situating Malawian hip hop with respect to both other musical genres in the country and to the nation‘s language in culture, .Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi. shows how Malawian youth use rap music to create a sense of community, which then becomes a foothold from which they can do activities that get them out of waithood and into the adult world, such as getting involved in the music industry, realizing electoral power, or participating in activism about issues such as violence against people with albinism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Hip hop has been a crucial tool f |
| 出版日期 | Book 2023 |
| 关键词 | Hip Hop; Malawi; Rap Music; African Youth; Youth Culture; Language and Youth; African hip hop |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15251-1 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-15253-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-15251-1Series ISSN 2634-6613 Series E-ISSN 2634-6621 |
| issn_series | 2634-6613 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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