Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration

by Adriana N. Helbig

Book Overview

In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces where an interracial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025301204X
• ISBN13: 9780253012043
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher