Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore...
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Author: Meredith Schweig
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Language: English
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Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan by Schweig, Meredith

Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan

$328.22

Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan

$328.22
Author: Meredith Schweig
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history.

Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law under the Chinese Nationalist Party ended. As members of a multicultural, multilingual society with a complex history of migration and colonization, Taiwanese people entered this moment of political transformation eager to tell their stories and grapple with their identities. In Renegade Rhymes, ethnomusicologist Meredith Schweig shows how rap music has become a powerful tool in the post-authoritarian period for both exploring and producing new knowledge about the ethnic, cultural, and political history of Taiwan.

Schweig draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, taking readers to concert venues, music video sets, scenes of protest, and more to show how early MCs from marginalized ethnic groups infused rap with important aspects of their own local languages, music, and narrative traditions. Aiming their critiques at the educational system and a neoliberal economy, new generations of rappers have used the art form to nurture associational bonds and rehearse rituals of democratic citizenship, making a new kind of sense out of their complicated present.

Author: Meredith Schweig
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/07/2022
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780226820590

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