Chris Nickell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6754425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Nickell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Nickell |
| SIGNATURE | NICKELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Blackness and the Nation in Arabic Hip Hop
In this contribution, Chris Nickell and Adam Benkato think together about the mobilization of Blackness in Arabic hip hop from two different contexts: a rap battle in Beirut, Lebanon and music videos from Benghazi, Libya. In both, hip hop artists confront Blackness with the nation through the Afro-diasporic medium of hip hop. Although the examples we consider here participate, in several ways, in hip hop’s larger generic functions as a globalized…
Promises and Pitfalls
I argue that streaming services like SoundCloud and Spotify are key elements of a two-faced virtual ecosystem – including social media and crowd-funding platforms – that independent musicians worldwide must navigate to achieve economic viability of their music. The two-facedness of these technologies lies in their promotion as democratic and open gateways for musicians at the same time as they actually serve as gatekeepers that throw up hidden wa…
Promises and Pitfalls
I argue that streaming services like SoundCloud and Spotify are key elements of a two-faced virtual ecosystem – including social media and crowd-funding platforms – that independent musicians worldwide must navigate to achieve economic viability of their music. The two-facedness of these technologies lies in their promotion as democratic and open gateways for musicians at the same time as they actually serve as gatekeepers that throw up hidden wa…
Promises and Pitfalls
I argue that streaming services like SoundCloud and Spotify are key elements of a two-faced virtual ecosystem – including social media and crowd-funding platforms – that independent musicians worldwide must navigate to achieve economic viability of their music. The two-facedness of these technologies lies in their promotion as democratic and open gateways for musicians at the same time as they actually serve as gatekeepers that throw up hidden wa…
On Blackness and the Nation in Arabic Hip Hop
In this contribution, Chris Nickell and Adam Benkato think together about the mobilization of Blackness in Arabic hip hop from two different contexts: a rap battle in Beirut, Lebanon and music videos from Benghazi, Libya. In both, hip hop artists confront Blackness with the nation through the Afro-diasporic medium of hip hop. Although the examples we consider here participate, in several ways, in hip hop’s larger generic functions as a globalized…
Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Arabic (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Battle (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Contradiction (1 work) · Democracy (1 work)