Rap, Race, the "Local," and Urban Geography in Amsterdam
Author: Adam Krims
Source: Critical Studies, Music Popular Culture Identities. Edited by Richard Young , pp. 165-179(15)
Publisher: Rodopi
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Abstract:
This essay examines the claims of cultural studies in the context of music and urban geography,and, in particular,in the context of rap and "Nederhop" (a Dutchlanguage rap music) in Amsterdam. It critiques the notion that localized cultural production and identities should be taken as "resistance" to a more homogenized and globalized dominant cultural form. Notions of urban and racial difference on the part of producers and consumers of Dutch rap (including Nederhop) are shown to be tied inextricably to more intractable representations of Amsterdam as a site of social difference. Those representations, in turn, are shown to be dependent on precisely the globalized notions of race, urban life, and music that localized musical forms are sometimes taken to resist or complicate. The conclusion is drawn that what Jody Berland has called the "optimism of cultural studies" may be wishful thinking.Document Type: Research article
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