Desi Rap

Desi Rap

Hip-hop and South Asian America

by Murali Balaji, Ajay Nair

188 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780739127216
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Desi Rap explores the connection between South Asian Americans and hip-hop as both a sociopolitical/cultural movement and performative identity. This groundbreaking collection of essays is the first book of its kind to interrogate ideas about ownership of culture while asserting the distinctness of South Asian American identity that has come through the use of and influence by hip-hop as a cultural art form.

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