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Osumare, Halifu. "African aesthetics, American Culture: Hip Hop in the Global Era," American Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, December 1999.
This dissertation explores the four artistic components of hip hop - rap, dejaying, b-boying and b-girling (breakdance), and aerosol art (graffiti) - to demonstrate hip hop’s international trajectory as a global pop culture that has transcended the boundaries of the nation-state. It explores the implications of cultural synthesis, the “intercultural body,” that may provide a new model that transcends the negativity of the history of appropriation of black culture in America, and situates the global connections of hip hop in a paradigm of “connective marginalities” linking class, culture, historical oppression, and the transnational youth generation. Within a social context of great conformity and increasing personal alienation, partially caused by an expanding credit economy, increasing disparity between rich and poor, an out-of-control structural bureaucracy, and new massive technologies, American popular culture has become completely synonymous with commodification. Hip hop, on one level, is quintessential commodified American pop culture; yet it offers a conflicted counter-hegemonic grass roots resistance on another. Simultaneously the dictates of the black cultural aesthetic demand an interactive, processual, and humanistic approach.
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