Racionais MC’s and N.W.A.: Bridging the Gap, Embracing Race, and Reclaiming Brazilian Rap’s Blackness

Autor: Paulo Dutra
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Dutra, Paulo. (2019). Racionais MC’s and N.W.A.: Bridging the Gap, Embracing Race, and Reclaiming Brazilian Rap’s Blackness. TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 9(1). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/658541z3
Popis: Author(s): Dutra, Paulo | Abstract: Notwithstanding the already established prominence of scholarship on rap music produced in the United States, Brazilian scholars rarely refer to American studies. Furthermore, a few comparative studies between Brazilian and American rap lyrics do exist. This study takes a step toward filling such a gap. While examining dominant scholarship on rap in Brazil, I demonstrate how Brazilian scholars render blackness invisible in their approaches to rap. Through a comparison between N.W.A.’s and Racionais MC’s’s lyrics, in which I highlight some of rap’s aesthetic and rhetoric devices that both groups share, I ultimately reclaim the place of blackness in Brazilian rap.
Databáze: OpenAIRE