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"""Appert's In Hip Hop Time is a riveting and deeply revelatory exploration of Hip Hop in Senegal, bristling with theoretical insights on Hip Hop, music, and globalization. Appert grapples with Hip Hop mythologies and methodologies, while successfully navigating the tensions between ethnography and musical analysis in refreshingly honest and rigorous ways that will benefit scholars across fields; this book is a wonderful addition to the Hip Hop Studies canon!"" --H. Samy Alim, UCLA, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences ""In this fine-grained musical ethnography, Catherine Appert samples, quotes and replays insights from Senegalese rappers to construct a beautifully layered analysis about collective memory, diaspora and locality, that also contests the triumphal myth of rap's political agency by identifying its limits. Highly recommended!"" --Kelly Askew, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan ""Appert drops the beat on current ethnomusicology. Rigorously researched, and written in a prose that flows, In Hip Hop Time explores Rap Galsen's dialogic imagination, re-mixing storytelling and analysis to interrogate the myths that make ethnography and its subjects."" --Ryan Skinner, Associate Professor, Music and African American and African Studies, Ohio State University"

Appert's In Hip Hop Time is a riveting and deeply revelatory exploration of Hip Hop in Senegal, bristling with theoretical insights on Hip Hop, music, and globalization. Appert grapples with Hip Hop mythologies and methodologies, while successfully navigating the tensions between ethnography and musical analysis in refreshingly honest and rigorous ways that will benefit scholars across fields; this book is a wonderful addition to the Hip Hop Studies canon! --H. Samy Alim, UCLA, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences In this fine-grained musical ethnography, Catherine Appert samples, quotes and replays insights from Senegalese rappers to construct a beautifully layered analysis about collective memory, diaspora and locality, that also contests the triumphal myth of rap's political agency by identifying its limits. Highly recommended! --Kelly Askew, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan Appert drops the beat on current ethnomusicology. Rigorously researched, and written in a prose that flows, In Hip Hop Time explores Rap Galsen's dialogic imagination, re-mixing storytelling and analysis to interrogate the myths that make ethnography and its subjects. --Ryan Skinner, Associate Professor, Music and African American and African Studies, Ohio State University

Appert drops the beat on current ethnomusicology. Rigorously researched, and written in a prose that flows, In Hip Hop Time explores Rap Galsen's dialogic imagination, re-mixing storytelling and analysis to interrogate the myths that make ethnography and its subjects. * Ryan Skinner, Associate Pro fessor, Music and African American Studies, Ohio State University *

Appert drops the beat on current ethnomusicology. Rigorously researched, and written in a prose that flows, In Hip Hop Time explores Rap Galsen's dialogic imagination, re-mixing storytelling and analysis to interrogate the myths that make ethnography and its subjects. * Ryan Skinner, Associate Pro fessor, Music and African American Studies, Ohio State University * In this fine-grained musical ethnography, Catherine Appert samples, quotes and replays insights from Senegalese rappers to construct a beautifully layered analysis about collective memory, diaspora and locality, that also contests the triumphal myth of rap's political agency by identifying its limits. Highly recommended! * Kelly Askew, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies, University of Michigan * Appert's In Hip Hop Time is a riveting and deeply revelatory exploration of Hip Hop in Senegal, bristling with theoretical insights on Hip Hop, music, and globalization. Appert grapples with Hip Hop mythologies and methodologies, while successfully navigating the tensions between ethnography and musical analysis in refreshingly honest and rigorous ways that will benefit scholars across fields; this book is a wonderful addition to the Hip Hop Studies canon! * H. Samy Alim, UCLA, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences *

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Catherine M. Appert is assistant professor at Cornell University, where she teaches courses on the music of Africa and the African diaspora, global hip hop and hip hop aesthetics, and ethnographic theory. She began working on this project in 2007, living in Senegal for a year during 2011-12 and witnessing firsthand the tumultuous 2012 presidential elections.

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