Language, Ethnicity, and Media in South Africa

IF 16.4 1区 化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
T. Bosch
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as by distancing themselves from indigenous performance genres such as taasu, praise singing, and mbalax (i.e. the Orality myth), on the other. She finds that the perceived appeal and utility of hip hop lies in its ability to articulate experientially an urban lived experience of marginalization that speaks to the needs and desires of a disenfranchised ‘youth’ generation due to the conscious ‘social action’ impulse embedded in the culture. Appert complicates this narrative by pointing out how state intervention and the social pressure to respect adult authority place constraints on what she calls their ‘hip hop voice’. One of Appert’s most compelling and insightful chapters is Chapter Five, in which she focuses on the experiences and perspectives of women hip hoppers. She reveals their precarious status in Rap Galsen and how they are forced both to confront and negotiate a multilayered labyrinth of patriarchal attitudes and behaviors within and outside the movement. Appert problematizes male rappers’ ‘distinct masculinity’ (136), which reduces women’s role in Rap Galsen to the margins, while highlighting the agency women exercise in challenging sexism and exclusion to carve out a space of belonging and visibility. In the final chapter, she returns to her core conceptual framework to underscore the ways in which hip hop production constitutes a discursive diaspora experience and response to contemporary urban marginalization in Dakar. In seeking to understand not only how but why Senegalese practice hip hop, she makes a very appealing argument about hip hop as an alternative temporality that suspends the transition from youth to adulthood, as well as allows for the articulation and re-articulation of transatlantic diasporic connections. Appert’s thorough and self-reflective ethnography convincingly supplants dominant narratives of hip hop in Africa by honing in on the intellectual groundwork that sets the politicization of rap in motion. Although her study lacks sufficient critical engagement with the nature and meaning of how Senegalese consume US hip hop, as well as on how the exogenous impacts consciousness, aesthetics, and politics, In Hip Hop Time is a must read for anyone not only interested in music, but also in understanding the relationship between memory, agency, and cultural production in contemporary urban Senegal and beyond. Her theoretical insights into diaspora cultural identity making breaks new ground in what is possible when studying the globalization of hip hop music and culture in Africa.
南非的语言、种族和媒体
另一方面,他们将自己与taasu、赞美诗和mbalax(即口头神话)等本土表演类型拉开距离。她发现,嘻哈的吸引力和实用性在于它能够以体验的方式表达边缘化的城市生活经历,这种经历迎合了由于文化中有意识的“社会行动”冲动而被剥夺公民权的“青年”一代的需求和欲望。阿佩尔指出,国家干预和尊重成人权威的社会压力如何限制了她所谓的“嘻哈声音”,这使这种叙述变得复杂。阿佩尔书中最引人注目和最有见地的章节之一是第五章,在这一章中,她关注的是女性嘻哈迷的经历和观点。她揭示了她们在《Rap Galsen》中岌岌可危的地位,以及她们是如何被迫面对和协商运动内外父权态度和行为的多层迷宫的。Appert对男性说唱歌手“独特的男性气质”提出了质疑(136),这将女性在Rap Galsen中的作用降低到了边缘,同时强调了女性在挑战性别歧视和排斥方面所发挥的作用,以开拓属于自己的空间和知名度。在最后一章,她回到她的核心概念框架,强调嘻哈制作构成话语散居体验的方式,以及对达喀尔当代城市边缘化的回应。在试图理解塞内加尔人如何以及为什么实践嘻哈的过程中,她提出了一个非常有吸引力的论点,即嘻哈作为一种替代暂时性,暂停了从青年到成年的过渡,以及允许跨大西洋散居者联系的衔接和再衔接。阿佩尔的深入和自我反思的民族志令人信服地取代了非洲嘻哈的主导叙事,通过对推动说唱政治化的思想基础进行了深入研究。尽管她的研究对塞内加尔人如何消费美国嘻哈的本质和意义缺乏足够的批判性参与,以及外生因素如何影响意识、美学和政治,但对于任何对音乐感兴趣的人来说,《嘻哈时代》是一本必读的书,不仅对音乐感兴趣,而且对理解当代塞内加尔城市及其他地区的记忆、代理和文化生产之间的关系感兴趣。她对散居文化认同的理论见解在研究非洲嘻哈音乐和文化全球化的可能性方面开辟了新的领域。
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Accounts of Chemical Research
Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合
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31.40
自引率
1.10%
发文量
312
审稿时长
2 months
期刊介绍: Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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