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We Still HereHip Hop North of the 49th Parallel |
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A groundbreaking collection of essays that illuminates how Indigenous and Black diasporic cultures shape hip hop in Canada.
We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders.
Contributors to the collection explore the power of institutions, mainstream hegemonies, and the processes of historical formation in the evolution of hip-hop culture. Throughout, the volume foregrounds the generative issues of gender, identity, and power, in particular in relation to the Black diaspora and Indigenous cultures. The contributions of artists in the scene are front and centre in this collection, exposing the distinct inner mechanics of Canadian hip hop from a variety of perspectives.
By amplifying rarely heard voices within hip-hop culture, We Still Here argues for its power to disrupt national formations and highlights the people and communities who make hip hop happen.
Contributors to the collection explore the power of institutions, mainstream hegemonies, and the processes of historical formation in the evolution of hip-hop culture. Throughout, the volume foregrounds the generative issues of gender, identity, and power, in particular in relation to the Black diaspora and Indigenous cultures. The contributions of artists in the scene are front and centre in this collection, exposing the distinct inner mechanics of Canadian hip hop from a variety of perspectives.
By amplifying rarely heard voices within hip-hop culture, We Still Here argues for its power to disrupt national formations and highlights the people and communities who make hip hop happen.
Details
328 Pages, 6 x 9
5 photos, 4 tables
ISBN 9780228003502
October 2020
Formats: Cloth, eBook
"As the editors and essay contributors of We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel well understand, identity in terms of hip hop in Canada has everything to do with the diaspora of cultures across the nation's provinces and cities … Indigenous voices, immigrant stories, linguistic diversity, gender, and generational divides are at the forefront of this exploration of hip hop's evolution as a medium both of expression and entertainment in Canada since the mid-1980s, a period in hip hop history dominated largely by what was happening in New York and LA. If you're the type of hip hop fan who views knowledge as the fifth element, this book is absolutely for you." Montreal Review of Books
"We Still Here goes deep into the different identities, communities, and practices that create Canadian hip hop. It offers comprehensive analyses of indigenous hop hop in urban and non-urban dimensions, the rich contexts constituted by the black community in Nova Scotia, queer hip hop, and early suburban hip hop in Toronto. A significant strength of the collection is the number of female voices represented. The sense is conveyed of a national hip hop culture in which women are absolutely essential." Will Straw, McGill University
“This is a rich collection compiled for a broad readership - academic and non-academic - and it invites all into awareness and contemplation of the rooted hip hop legacies and practices framing and shaping the Canadian context.” University of Toronto Quarterly
"We Still Here goes deep into the different identities, communities, and practices that create Canadian hip hop. It offers comprehensive analyses of indigenous hop hop in urban and non-urban dimensions, the rich contexts constituted by the black community in Nova Scotia, queer hip hop, and early suburban hip hop in Toronto. A significant strength of the collection is the number of female voices represented. The sense is conveyed of a national hip hop culture in which women are absolutely essential." Will Straw, McGill University
“This is a rich collection compiled for a broad readership - academic and non-academic - and it invites all into awareness and contemplation of the rooted hip hop legacies and practices framing and shaping the Canadian context.” University of Toronto Quarterly
Charity Marsh, director of the Interactive Media and Performance Labs, is associate professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina.
Mark V. Campbell, DJ and curator, is assistant professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Mark V. Campbell, DJ and curator, is assistant professor in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Acknowledgments vii
Figures xi
Foreword xiii
Murray Forman
Indigenous and Diaspora Reverberations: Hip Hop in Canada and Canadian Hip Hop. An Introduction 3
Charity Marsh and Mark V. Campbell
PART ONE REMEMBERING, NARRATING, AND ARCHIVING HIP HOP IN CANADA
1 Doing the Knowledge: Digitally Archiving Hip Hop in Canada 17
Mark V. Campbell
2 “And You Run Where You Can”: Music and Memory in Three Canadian Hip Hop Videos 32
Jesse Stewart
3 Celebration, Resistance, and Action - Beat Nation: Hip Hop as Indigenous Culture 46
Charity Marsh
PART TWO REPRESENTATION AND BELONGING
4 Rapping to and for a Multivocal Canada: “Je M’y Oppose Au Nom de Toute la Nation” 65
Liz Przybylski
5 Following the Thread: Toronto’s Place in Hip Hop Dance Histories 97
Mary Fogarty
6 Exploring the Hip Hop Aural Imaginaries of New Immigrant and Indigenous Youth in Winnipeg 116
Charlotte Fillmore-Handlon
7 A Royal State of Mind: An Interview with True Daley 138
Mark V. Campbell
PART THREE POLITICS, POETICS, AND POTENTIALS
8 Post-Nationalist Hip Hop: Beatmaking and the Emergence of the Piu Piu Scene 159
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier and Laurent K. Blais
9 Last Night a dj Saved My Life: Hip Hop, Cultural Continuity, and First Nations Suicidality 183
Margaret Robinson
10 Reppin’ Right: K’naan as Diasporic Disruption in North American Hip Hop 204
Salman A. Rana and Mark V. Campbell
11 “The Hip Hop We See. The Hip Hop We Do.” Powerful and Fierce Women in Hip Hop in Canada 221
Charity Marsh
References 243
Contributors 271
Index 275
Figures xi
Foreword xiii
Murray Forman
Indigenous and Diaspora Reverberations: Hip Hop in Canada and Canadian Hip Hop. An Introduction 3
Charity Marsh and Mark V. Campbell
PART ONE REMEMBERING, NARRATING, AND ARCHIVING HIP HOP IN CANADA
1 Doing the Knowledge: Digitally Archiving Hip Hop in Canada 17
Mark V. Campbell
2 “And You Run Where You Can”: Music and Memory in Three Canadian Hip Hop Videos 32
Jesse Stewart
3 Celebration, Resistance, and Action - Beat Nation: Hip Hop as Indigenous Culture 46
Charity Marsh
PART TWO REPRESENTATION AND BELONGING
4 Rapping to and for a Multivocal Canada: “Je M’y Oppose Au Nom de Toute la Nation” 65
Liz Przybylski
5 Following the Thread: Toronto’s Place in Hip Hop Dance Histories 97
Mary Fogarty
6 Exploring the Hip Hop Aural Imaginaries of New Immigrant and Indigenous Youth in Winnipeg 116
Charlotte Fillmore-Handlon
7 A Royal State of Mind: An Interview with True Daley 138
Mark V. Campbell
PART THREE POLITICS, POETICS, AND POTENTIALS
8 Post-Nationalist Hip Hop: Beatmaking and the Emergence of the Piu Piu Scene 159
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier and Laurent K. Blais
9 Last Night a dj Saved My Life: Hip Hop, Cultural Continuity, and First Nations Suicidality 183
Margaret Robinson
10 Reppin’ Right: K’naan as Diasporic Disruption in North American Hip Hop 204
Salman A. Rana and Mark V. Campbell
11 “The Hip Hop We See. The Hip Hop We Do.” Powerful and Fierce Women in Hip Hop in Canada 221
Charity Marsh
References 243
Contributors 271
Index 275
