Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA

by Tony Mitchell (Editor)

International scholars explore the hip hop scenes of Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia.

Genres: Hip Hop, Music, Cultural Studies

352 pages, Hardcover

First published February 25, 2001

About the author

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Tony Mitchell is honorary research associate at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Dario Fo: People's Court Jester (London: Methuen: 1999), Popular Music and Local Identity: Pop, Rock and Rap in Europe and Oceania (University of Leicester Press: 1996) and the editor of Global Noise: Rap and Hip hop outside the USA (Wesleyan University Press: 2001). He co-edited Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia (Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies: 2008), North meets South: Popular Music in Aotearoa/New Zealand, (Perfect Beat: 1994), and Home, Land and Sea: Situating Popular Music in Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland: Pearson Education: 2011). He has also published numerous articles on music and film in various countries, including Iceland, and writes reviews for the Australian magazines Music Forum and Cyclic Defrost.

Reviews

[J30000110 · Rating 5 out of 5]

A compilation of 13 articles discussing about the redefinition of hip hop outside Bronx, New York. It is edited by a hip hop observer who is also a lecturer in University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

[Lidia Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

libro para mi tfg, solo me leí la parte de japón pero muy muy interesante si os gusta aprender sobre música y cómo surge en diferentes contextos culturales.