عنوان

'Iraq is the new Black': Performing Arabness in Arab American hip-hop

Number

TL47806

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

'Iraq is the new Black': Performing Arabness in Arab American hip-hop

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Timothy J. Dolan

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Tuohy, Sue M. C.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

105

Text of Note

Committee members: Leon, Javier; Orejuela, Fernando

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-303-96157-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Body granting the degree

Indiana University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

This thesis examines the words and works of six Arab American rappers who use hip-hop music as a tool to create and represent selves that are informed by both individual experience and multiple group identities. In doing so, each of these six artists confront a particular category of identity, the category of the 'Arab' or the 'Arab American,' a label with multiple interpretations and meanings. It draws on the theories of Foucault, Butler, and Nora to argue that each of these artists uses the power of hip-hop as a discursive medium to grapple with the normative concept of Arabness, using words to take control of the patterns of signification associated with this category and to reorganize its meanings, both within public discourses and within their own understandings of self.

Folklore; Music; Ethnic studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Arabness;Hip-hop;Identity;Memory;Normativity;Technologies of the self

Dolan, Timothy J.

Tuohy, Sue M. C.

Subdivision

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Indiana University

Call Number

1554688954; 1557849

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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