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half math, half amazing
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documentary re: hip-hop (and democracy) in senegal
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re: racism in contemporary australia
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south park-y australian hip-hop video critical of john howard, australian mainstream/white racism, and the handling of a refugee crisis
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aussie rap video critiquing uncritical adoption of american gangsta style
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classic (early) australian hip-hop, ca. 92, representing the A.U.S. raggamuffin stylee
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“The global phenomenon of social networks is landing in Latin America. … With focused on providing conclusive data about this phenomenon we analyzed data from ComScore.” (via lynne d)
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interactive site re: HIV in jamaica (by kwame dawes)
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Nice to see your trek around the world of hip-hop continuing (loved the new-school joint). Staying in Oceania, have you checked out the New Zealand hip-hop scene? It’s one of the better-developed in the region, if by better-developed you mean deeper integrated into the class/race systems of the country.
Actually, we covered New Zealand’s hip-hop scene in the same week that we turned to Australia’s. I just didn’t bookmark a lot of the videos, etc., for NZ. But there’s definitely some good stuff there. See my recent YouTube favorites for a few examples. Here’s a quick list, including the early, more gospel than hip-hoppy “Poi E” —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLUygS0IAQ
A couple from Upper Hutt Posse, including some raggafied stylee —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxU7rq1Ucg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGlFtxzWb4
Dam Native is pretty interesting —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZpczgUCuxg
And this remix of “Chains” is quite powerful —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKMkkf2aWZs
Finally, of course, there’s perhaps the best known bit of NZ hip-hop —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfJe8hQ8ha0
Interesting that you only pick Maori artists – there seems to be a significant stylistic division in New Zealand among different ethnic groups. My favourite NZ hip-hopper, King Kapisi, is Samoan (representing a fairly large minority of Pacific Islanders that’s not necessarily accepted by either Maori or White kiwis). All his videos are brilliant too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0l44FwkeCA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toD_ptYs7r4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn6Y0I0qvBM
Thanks for the links. Yes, we also discussed the Samoan side of things. There’s a pretty good article on the subject, which we read for class: April K. Henderson’s “Dancing Between Islands: Hip Hop and the Samoan Diaspora” (The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, 180-99).