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« Le rap, ça vient d’ici ! »

Musiques, pouvoir et identités dans le Gabon contemporain

Since the end of the 1980s, rap music has become in Gabon—as in other African countries—the crucible of major identity constructions, reconfigurations of power, and cultural transformations. Contrary to the idea that hip-hop would lead to a Westernisation or cultural homogenisation, the appropriation of this globalized musical genre has driven in Libreville to a various series of constructions of particularisms and claims for local, in the domains of gender, religion, nationalism, ethnicit...


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  • Publisher : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
  • Series : Le (bien) commun | 8
  • Place of publication : Paris
  • Year of publication : 2017
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 10 août 2017
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-2-7351-2379-7
  • Electronic EAN : 978-2-7351-2387-2
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.10414
  • Number of pages : 336 p.

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