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PowerPoint Presentation - Performance and Power in Japanese Hip-Hop


Source: ocw.mit.edu
Topic: Hip Hop

Sort Desciption: hip-hop enlivens certain aesthetic and political. subjectivities through performances that mix ... potentials for hip-hop to question global politics ...

Content Inside: Japanese Hip-Hop and Globalization Image of Crazy-A removed for copyright reasons. Ian Condry M.I.T. Two Lessons of Hip-Hop in Japan 1. cultural influence is best viewed not as "global vs. local" but as "genba globalization" • "genba" = place where culture is performed • "cultural flows" viewed in terms of "performativity" in particular locations 2. The spread of American-style popular culture does not necessarily spread American "soft power" (e.g., rap & 9/11) Image of MC U of Kick the Can Crew Ikebukuro, 2/97) removed for copyright reasons. Gender as Performance • Judith Butler: • Gender is a "stylized repetition of acts…which are internally discontinuous [so that] the appearance of substance is precisely that, a constructed identity, a performative accomplishment which the mundane social audience, including the actors themselves, come to believe to perform in the mode of belief." Quoted in Diamond (1996), p. 4 – QUESTION: ethnicity, race, other aspects of identity too . ? What is hip-hop? Four elements 1. rap – rhythm and rhyme (not singing) 2. DJ Image of Sakuragi-cho Yokohama, Japan removed for copyright reasons. – scratch records, mix, breakbeats 3. breakdance – battling, spinning, in parks 4. graffiti – aerosol art on trains and in public spaces Hip-hops U.S. origins Image from 1982 film "Wild Style" documents graffiti, breakdance, rap, DJ in NYC. removed for copyright reasons. Film is shown in Tokyo 1983 • New York City, 1970s • largely African American movement • Block parties in the South Bronx (NY) • from "just a fad" (according to big media) to "global conquest" (Vibe magazine) • "Black culture" more than "American culture" What does hip-hop in Japan tell us about how culture is changing? Breakdance image removed for copyright reasons. Image of Graffiti in Yokohama removed ...



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