scholarly journals Global Noise and Global Englishes

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Pennycook
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
American Culture ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Black Noise

Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA, alluding to Tricia Rose’s US rap-music book, Black Noise, aims to do much more than merely extend the reach of the study of rap and hip-hop beyond the USA, as its subtitle might suggest. While acknowledging the importance of the work of both Rose and Potter, this collection’s editor, Tony Mitchell, contests their respective views that rap and hip-hop are essentially expressions of African-American culture, and that all forms of rap and hip-hop derive from these origins. He argues that these forms have become ‘a vehicle for global youth affiliations and a tool for reworking local iden- tity all over the world’.

Beyond the White Negro

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Chabot Davis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
College Classrooms ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Novels ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Self Examination

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or “White Negroes,” who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. This book claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics of racial crossover in the past fifteen years. The book analyzes how white engagement with African American novels, film narratives, and hip-hop can help form anti-racist attitudes that may catalyze social change and racial justice. Though acknowledging past failures to establish cross-racial empathy, the book focuses on examples that show avenues for future progress and change. Its study of ethnographic data from book clubs and college classrooms shows how engagement with African American culture and pedagogical support can lead to the kinds of white self-examination that make empathy possible. The result is a book that challenges the trend of focusing on society's failures in achieving cross-racial empathy and instead explores possible avenues for change.

scholarly journals Call-and-Response: An Ancient Linguistic Device Surfaces in Usher's "Love in This Club"

Elements ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Keegan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
American Culture ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Call And Response ◽  
Salient Features

The call-and-response, originating from African tribal rituals, has become part of the foundation of modern African-American culture. This article explores the significance of call-and-response in Usher's "Love in This Club" and relates salient features of the music to the club culture that underlies it. "Club hip-hop" emerges as firmly rooted in the use of call-and-response. The rituals of the club are likewise mirrored in the style of the music, which at times can bear the importance of sacred ceremony.

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