Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12563
Title: Aboriginal youth, hip hop and the politics of identification
Contributor(s): Morgan, George (author); Warren, Andrew  (author)
Publication Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2010.517323
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12563
Abstract: This paper explores the identity work taking place around contemporary subcultural hip hop amongst Australian indigenous youth in two disadvantaged urban locations. Previous work on Aboriginal hip hop has been attentive to the interface between tradition and modernity. However, existing scholarship has lacked a deeper ethnographic understanding of the dynamics between youth and parent cultures, and the tensions between the two generations. This article is based on research with young hip hop enthusiasts, community activists and educators. It deals with the cultural politics of identification and sees hip hop practice as associated with a process in which Aboriginality is crystallized as a principal affiliation and as offering an account for experiences of social marginalization. Far from being an outlet for expressing a prior or essential Aboriginality, hip hop as cultural practice is associated with the production of particular identifications.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34(6), p. 925-947
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1466-4356
0141-9870
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160403 Social and Cultural Geography
160806 Social Theory
160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare
959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified
949999 Law, Politics and Community Services not elsewhere classified
940111 Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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