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10 - The Foundations of Rap Music and Post-colonial Emancipation

Guadeloupe Hip-Hop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2022

By
Florabelle Spielmann
Edited by
Nanette de Jong
Nanette de Jong
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle
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Summary

This chapter investigates the evolution of rap music in Guadeloupe at the end of the 1990s. Based on ethnographic data and grounded in both postcolonial and decolonial theories, the chapter explores the relationship between Guadeloupe and American hip-hop, as well as the role local French Caribbean cultural politics served in enabling new constructions of belonging to take root in Guadeloupe hip-hop.

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GuadeloupeHip-HopPostcolonial TheoryDecolonial TheoryCreolisation
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The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music , pp. 145 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Discography (Chronological Order)

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