Reflexivity in French Rap
More than a Mirror to the Republic
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 June 2026
- ISBN 9780197781562
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156x14 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 halftones 698
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Short description:
Reflexivity in French Rap offers a new look at French rap's position in the cultural landscape. Emily Q. Shuman examines how French rappers hold up a mirror to themselves and to their social world, playing off the terms of debate over the music's aesthetic value and place in the French social imaginary. Shuman shows how French rappers channel commonly held beliefs about their musical genre into the lyrical, sonic, and visual qualities of their performances.
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Reflexivity in French Rap offers a new look at rap's position in the French cultural landscape. Emily Q. Shuman examines how French rappers hold up a mirror to themselves and to their social world, playing off the terms of debate over the music's aesthetic value and place in the French social imaginary. Shuman traces commonly held beliefs about French rap, from selectively legitimizing parallels to France's literary patrimony, to belief in its innate capacity to incite violence, to expectations that it performs racial difference, to lamentations of its commodified nature, to reinforcements of the mainstream media as its principal antagonist.
However, rather than writing off these representations as distorted exterior gazes projected onto the music, Shuman instead shows how French rappers channel them into the lyrical, sonic, and visual qualities of their performances. Featuring rappers and groups such as MC Solaar, Médine, Booba, Tandem, Sniper, La Rumeur, Youssoupha, Abd al Malik, Casey, PNL, Alpha Wann, Shay, NTM, Keny Arkana, and Vald, this fascinating book finds that the richest knowledge that French rap produces about its social and political context is entwined with its meta-commentary on its aesthetic form and anticipated reception.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: "A Little Soft for Rebel Music": Negotiating French Rap's Representational Space
Literary Litmus Tests: Rap Artistry and the Figure of the Author
Poetic Injustice: Staging the Penalization of French Rap
Drawing in the Gaze: Reflexivity and the Performativity of Race in French Rap
Illicit Aesthetics: Market Cravings and Rap's Stupefying Appeal
Complicit Critiques: Rap's Immersion in the Media Landscape
Conclusion: Validé, Nouvelle École, and the Futures of French Rap's Reflexivity
