Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World

by Mark Katz

Book Overview

Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State has been sending hip hop artists abroad to perform and teach as goodwill ambassadors. There are good reasons for this: hip hop is known and loved across the globe, acknowledged and appreciated as a product of American culture. Hip hop has from its beginning been a means of creating community through artistic collaboration, fostering what hip hop artists call building.

A timely study of U.S. diplomacy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190056118
• ISBN13: 9780190056117
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"