Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene: Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

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Laura Speers

Hip-Hop Authenticity and the London Scene

Living Out Authenticity in Popular Music

Laura Speers

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Routledge
04 February 2019

Rap & Hip-Hop; Popular culture

Series: Routledge Studies in Popular Music

This book explores the highly-valued, and often highly-charged, ideal of authenticity in hip-hop — what it is, why it is important, and how it affects the day-to-day life of rap artists. By analyzing the practices, identities, and struggles that shape the lives of rappers in the London scene, the study exposes the strategies and tactics that hip-hop practitioners engage in to negotiate authenticity on an everyday basis. In-depth interviews and fieldwork provide insight into the nature of authenticity in global hip-hop, and the dynamics of cultural appropriation, globalization, marketization, and digitization through a combined set of ethnographic, theoretical, and cultural analysis.

Despite growing attention to authenticity in popular music, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive theoretical model explaining the reflexive approaches hip-hop artists adopt to ‘live out’ authenticity in everyday life. This model will act as a blueprint for new studies in global hip-hop and be generative in other authenticity research, and for other music genres such as punk, rock and roll, country, and blues that share similar issues surrounding contested artist authenticity.

By: Laura Speers
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780367231385
ISBN 10: 0367231387
Series: Routledge Studies in Popular Music
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 04 February 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Keepin’ it Real: Authenticity Debates and Global Hip-Hop 2. Setting the Scene: The Changing Context of the London Hip-Hop Scene 3. Negotiating Struggle in Everyday Life 4. Strategies and Tactics: Living Out Authenticity 5. Towards a New Conceptualization of Authenticity

Laura Speers is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK. Her research interests include popular music, creativity and everyday life.