Build
The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 December 2019
- ISBN 9780190056117
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 157x236x30 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 halftones 0
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Short description:
Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World explores the inescapable tensions and ambiguities in the relationship between art and the state, revealing the ethical complexities that lurk behind what might seem mere goodwill diplomatic tours. Author Mark Katz makes the case that hip hop can be a valuable, positive, and effective means to promote meaningful and productive international relations between people and nations.
MoreLong description:
Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call building.
A timely study of U.S. diplomacy, Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World reveals the power of art to bridge cultural divides, facilitate understanding, and express and heal trauma. Yet power is never single-edged, and the story of hip hop diplomacy is deeply fraught. Drawing from nearly 150 interviews with hip hop artists, diplomats, and others in more than 30 countries, Build explores the inescapable tensions and ambiguities in the relationship between art and the state, revealing the ethical complexities that lurk behind what might seem mere goodwill tours. Author Mark Katz makes the case that hip hop, at its best, can promote positive, productive international relations between people and nations. A U.S.-born art form that has become a voice of struggle and celebration worldwide, hip hop has the power to build global community when it is so desperately needed.
Build offers a rare and valuable entry into a project of unprecedented scope in American hip-hop, by providing a view from inside institutions and from American artists
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1: Sample a Look Back
2: Boom Bap Diplomacy: Connecting Cultures, Transforming Conflict
3: Operating in a Zone of Ambiguity: Tensions and Risks in Hip-Hop Diplomacy
4: Building Songs Instead of Missiles: Agency and Subversive Complicity in Hip-Hop Diplomacy
5: Build and Destroy: Hip-Hop, U.S. Diplomacy, and Islam
Conclusion
