The vigorous local: culture industry hip-hop and the politics of resistance in the age of globalization

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Mert, Ceren

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The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate how music has become a significant means of communication in the process of globalization, and how it integrates the ءglobal̕ and the ءlocal̕ while enabling the aggrieved populations to speak through and to express their antagonistic stances. In addition to the discussions of globalization, this study analyzes the medium of music along the areas of media and identity politics. In this respect, it deliberates on the global and local features of hip-hop. Although born in the ghettos of Bronx, New York, this global youth culture has been adopted by other minority youths in order to voice their anger and frustration towards the exclusionist practices of the state, as well as racism and discrimination they face in their host countries. Accordingly, the second and third generation Turkish youths in Germany and South Asian youths in Britain have revealed their rage through the subversive lyrics they employed. Therefore, these lyrics can also be regarded as narratives that indicate these immigrant youths as representatives of resistance and defiance. Despite the fact that the musical works of these minority youths may be considered a product of the ءculture industry̕, this does not eliminate their resistive and subversive characteristics.

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Popular culture, Globalization, Local, Media, Culture industry, Diaspora, Music, Hip-Hop, Immigrants, Resistance

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1137694/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13555

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C. Mert, “The vigorous local: culture industry hip-hop and the politics of resistance in the age of globalization,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.