Rap music and the youth in Malawi: reppin' the flames / Ken Lipenga Jr.
2023
ML3917.M3
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Title
Rap music and the youth in Malawi: reppin' the flames / Ken Lipenga Jr.
Author
Lipenga, Ken.
ISBN
9783031152511 (electronic bk.)
3031152514 (electronic bk.)
3031152506
9783031152504
3031152514 (electronic bk.)
3031152506
9783031152504
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-15251-1 doi
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ML3917.M3
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.484249083096897
Summary
Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi is one of the first book-length studies of Malawian hip hop. It studies the language and content of contemporary Malawian hip hop as a window onto the country's youth culture as Malawian young people negotiate what scholar Alcinda Honwana calls 'waithood,' or the condition, common among Malawian youth, of lacking opportunities to advance from a situation of dependence and being stuck in a state of relative childhood. The book argues that rap music made by Malawian youth music speaks of and represents, through its very agency their need to break out of this stagnant state. After situating Malawian hip hop with respect to both other musical genres in the country and to the nation's language in culture, Rap Music and the Youth in Malawi shows how Malawian youth use rap music to create a sense of community, which then becomes a foothold from which they can do activities that get them out of waithood and into the adult world, such as getting involved in the music industry, realizing electoral power, or participating in activism about issues such as violence against people with albinism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Hip hop has been a crucial tool for Malawian youth to build the skills, identity, and agency necessary to exercise their economic, cultural, and civic independence.
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Pop music, culture and identity, 2634-6621
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Locating Rap in Malawis Music Industry
3. The Language of Malawian Rap
4. Verses of Youth Political Participation
5. Youth, Alcohol and the Forging of Community
6. Reppin' the Ghetto: Space and Identity
7. Social Consciousness: The Rapper as an Activist
8. Making Rap Malawian: Cultural Appropriation and Authenticity
9. Conclusion: The Future of Malawian Rap.
2. Locating Rap in Malawis Music Industry
3. The Language of Malawian Rap
4. Verses of Youth Political Participation
5. Youth, Alcohol and the Forging of Community
6. Reppin' the Ghetto: Space and Identity
7. Social Consciousness: The Rapper as an Activist
8. Making Rap Malawian: Cultural Appropriation and Authenticity
9. Conclusion: The Future of Malawian Rap.