Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop. DEREK PARDUE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. INDICE: Introduction and Frame - Assembling Brazilian Hip Hop Histories - Making Territorial Claims: São Paulo Hip-Hop and the Socio-Geographical Dynamics of Periferia - Putting Mano to Music - Mano. Mana: The Engendering of the Periferia - Fechou? (I'm Out. The End?): Concluding Remarks about a Crisis and an Opportunity.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60465-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 22/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés