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Permissions Icon Permissions. Issue Section:. You do not currently have access to this article. Download all figures. Sign in. You could not be signed in. Sign In Forgot password? Don't have an account? Sign in via your Institution Sign in. While not all French rappers actually grew up in such neighborhoods just as not all U. So does Japanese animation, which, as we will see in chapter 5, has been hugely culturally influential in France since the late s. The series happened to be scheduled after a program focusing on hip-hop Marti, When mentioning these global texts, French rappers simultaneously point to French cultural practices.
The limitations of current academic work on hip-hop when considering the genre as a global phenomenon are further explored in the following section. A discussion of how a translocal perspective might help overcome these limitations is also provided when appropriate. Certainly, considering the crucial importance of African American cultural production in the United States, the complex politics of its negotiation must be critically examined.
Its translocal connections are much more complex and interesting than that. Solaar and other French rappers more generally exert a powerful influence on the francophone hip-hop community that, again, at times supersedes that of their U. References that dynamics considered solely on a local vs.
Thinking translocally helps us realize that hip-hop has taken multiple and unexpected paths in its global voyage, including ones that may not necessarily lead back to the United States. Approaching hip-hop from a different point of entry, scholars conducting research on non-U. From such a perspective, U. A translocal perspective demonstrates that hip-hop spreads through different points of entry. It encourages us to see how the processes of cultural production that Condry describes in the context of the Japanese genba —the actual place of cultural production—may be more similar to those taking place in the French banlieue than in the American ghetto and vice versa.
Thus, analyses taking U. More generally, such interpretations fail to fully problematize the politics of race in a global context. Rarely is it acknowledged that minorities within the U.
Indeed, as U. At the very least, this position gives them access to transnational networks of production and distribution not available to all. Pointing to the fact that non-American African rappers are generally marginalized in the United States, he suggests that the global dominance of African American rap developed at the expense of other transnational African voices. In a similar vein, U. So is its power to impact the global imagination of Africa through its construction of a U.
As Shome and Hegde remind us, the U.
They become static lacking dynamism. Basically, instead of Muslim reformist intellectuals coming together on issues, they are more likely to emphasize their differences for example, Western-oriented, secularist Muslims vs. In addition, communication-recovery skills, such as humor, apology, and admission that one does not know everything, "reinforce confidence as well as competence because, when it is known that there is something to fall back on, one is less likely to avoid interactions that may prove difficult" [[ 96 ], p. The core of logos is the critical use of imagination. Introduce useful concepts from waste and consumption studies [ , ] i.
Interesting parallels exist, for instance, between the politics of race in Japanese and French hip-hop.