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Rap Beyond Resistance

Staging Power in Contemporary Morocco

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Authors:
  1. Cristina Moreno Almeida

    1. Deparment of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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  • Unravels the political economy of music analysing private media, state-funded music festivals, self-production and digital culture as key elements in non-Western cultural contexts
  • Connects the production of certain narratives to the awareness of the politics of the cultural field
  • Combines discourse analysis, producers’ interviews, participant observation and field observations gathered over 4 years of research in Morocco
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity (PMCI)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Straightjacket of Resistance

    • Cristina Moreno Almeida
    Pages 1-20

  3. Deciphering Moroccan ‘Cool’

    • Cristina Moreno Almeida
    Pages 21-50

  4. Rap and the Revival of Patriotism

    • Cristina Moreno Almeida
    Pages 51-82

  5. Branding Patriotism, Commodifying Resistance

    • Cristina Moreno Almeida
    Pages 83-112

  6. Visual Representations of Power: Urban Spaces and Rooftops

    • Cristina Moreno Almeida
    Pages 113-143

  7. Economies of Resistance

    • Cristina Moreno Almeida
    Pages 145-168

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 169-181
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About this book

This book fills the gap in existing literature by exploring other forms of political discourses in non-Western rap music. Theoretically, it challenges and explores resistance, arguing towards the need for different epistemological frameworks in which to look at narratives of cultural resistance in the Arabic-speaking world.  Empirically, it provides an in-depth look at the politics of rap culture in Morocco. Rap Beyond Resistance bridges the humanities and social sciences in order to de-Westernize cultural studies, presenting the political narratives of the Moroccan rap scene beyond secular liberal meanings of resistance. By exploring what is political, this book brings light to a vibrant and varied rap scene diverse in its political discourses–with an emphasis on patriotism and postcolonial national identity–and uncovers different ways in which young artists are being political beyond ‘radical lyrics’.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Deparment of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

    Cristina Moreno Almeida

About the author

Cristina Moreno Almeida is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King’s College London, UK, and a visiting fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

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