Hip-Hop en Français

Alain-Philippe Durand is Dean of the College of Humanities, Professor of French, Honors College Distinguished Fellow, and affiliated faculty in Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, LGBT Studies, and Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the author and editor of Black, Blanc, Beur. Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in the Francophone World (Scarecrow Press, 2002). He is Associate Editor of the journal Contemporary French Civilization. In 2013, he launched the Minor in Hip-Hop Studies at the University of Arizona.

Foreword
Marcyliena Morgan

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Alain-Philippe Durand

1. Forty Years of French Rap: Identities in Crescendo
Karim Hammou
Translated from the French by Katie Angus

2. Hip Hop Music and Rap in Cities in Crisis: The Case of Marseille
Jean-Marie Jacono
Translated from the French by André Pettman

3. “Fear of a Black Planet”: The Transnational Racial Politics of Hip-Hop in France, 1990-1991
Samir Meghelli

4. Ghetto Patrimony: Rap and Racialization in France
Paul A. Silverstein

5. Rap Music in Guadeloupe, an Overseas French Department in the Caribbean: 1980s to the Early 2000s
Steve Gadet
Translated from the French by Richard J. Gray II

6. French Rapper-Writers and Activism: Global Black Solidarity and (In)visibility
Stève Puig

7. New Media, New Voices: Booba’s and Sofiane’s Use of Social Networks to Promote Aspiring Rappers
Kathryn Kleppinger

8. Hip-Hop Based Education (HHBE) in Paris and Its Suburbs
Charles Norton

9. The Body Politic of Hip Hop Dance: What Hip Hop Dance’s Relation with French Society and Institutions Tells Us About the Place of Popular Art and its Political Stakes
Hugues Bazin
Translated from the French by André Pettman

10. “Beats Working”: Performance Economics in The Roots (2013) and Divines (2016)
Felicia McCarren

11. Illegal Mural Expressions: Graffiti as an Act of Resistance?
Alain Milon
Translated from the French by Sarah Glasco and Matthew Kemp

12. Of Melody, Markets, and Mobilization: A History of Hip Hop in Dakar, Senegal
Catherine M. Appert

13. Rap Music in Quebec: An Essentially Hybrid Genre
Maxime Delcourt
Translated from the French by Patricia Frederick

14. Alaclair Ensemble’s “Postrigodon”: An Inclusive Rewriting of “Lower-Canada’s” History Applied to Hip-Hop
Ariane Gruet-Pelchat
Translated from the French by Matthew Kemp