Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan

by Meredith Schweig

Book Overview

A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history.

Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law under the Chinese Nationalist Party ended. As members of a multicultural, multilingual society with a complex history of migration and colonization, Taiwanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226819582
• ISBN13: 9780226819587
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"