Title: Performing Identity/Performing Culture - Hip Hop As Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0820451762
ISBN 13: 9780820451763
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: fine

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This is the first book-length ethnography of young people and their uses of hip-hop culture. Drawing together historical work on hip hop and rap music as well as four years of research at a local community center, Greg Dimitriadis argues that contemporary youth are increasingly fashioning notions of self and community outside of school in ways that educators have largely ignored. After exploring the historical evolution of hip hop through analysis of important artists and groups such as the Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy, N.W.A., and the Wu-Tang Clan, Dimitriadis demonstrates the ways rap texts have been picked up and used by young people at a local community center in the Midwest. His studies are broad-ranging: how two teenagers constructed notions of a Southern tradition through their use of Southern rap artists like Master P and Eightball & MJG; how young people constructed notions of history through viewing the film "Panther," a film they connected to hip-hop culture more broadly; and how young people dealt with the life and death of icon Tupac Shakur through the construction of resurrection myths. Drawing on the best impulses of cultural studies, "Performing Identity/Performing Culture" opens new spaces at the intersections of education, media studies, communication, and anthropology broadening the kinds of questions we ask about young people and their often misunderstood relationship to and with popular culture."

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� 'Performing Identity/Performing Culture' is a bold and powerful book. Departing from the work of others. Dimitriadis draws together textual analysis of rap music and film with nuanced and carefully drawn ethnographic accounts of bow black youth in a community center appropriate what appear to be packaged meanings. Offering a new way of looking at texts as well as those critical performances emanating from texts, 'Performing Identity/Performing Culture' provides a model for understanding identity production in an increasingly complex world. But Dimitriadis does not stop there. Challenging educators to recognize what goes on in the lives of students outside of school, be suggests ways in which popular culture may be infused into our increasingly accountability-driven curriculum. It should be read by anyone interested in urban schools today.

-'Performing Identity/Performing Culture' is a bold and powerful book. Departing from the work of others, Dimitriadis draws together textual analyses of rap music and film with nuanced and carefully drawn ethnographic accounts of how black youth in a community center appropriate what appear to be packaged meanings. Offering a new way of looking at texts as well as those critical performances emanating from texts, 'Performing Identity/Performing Culture' provides a model for understanding identity production in an increasingly complex world. But Dimitriadis does not stop there. Challenging educators to recognize what goes on in the lives of students outside of school, he suggests ways in which popular culture may be infused into our increasingly accountability-driven curriculum. It should be read by anyone interested in urban schools today.- (Lois Weis, Author of 'The Unknown City')"

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