Authorship, subjectivity and resistance in the mainstream

A lesson from Israeli rap

Bibliographic Data

ID12599640
AuthorsUri Dorchin (Zefat Academic College, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume21
Issue4
Pages452-468
Publication date2017-01-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367549416682963
OpenAlexW2568346051
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Notions of authenticity and resistance are often addressed concomitantly in the context of popular culture and in the discourse that surrounds blackness in particular. Avoiding such a perspective, this article draws on Israeli mainstream rappers for whom rap is a way to converge popular style with the ability to speak their mind in the most sincere way. Based on ethnographic description, I therefore call to acknowledge rappers’ position as ‘authors’: aware and critical subjects whose sense of personhood depends not on strict avoidance from mainstream routes but rather on a sober participation in it. Contemporary hip-hop in this case offers a possible escape from a rigid power-oriented analysis and from the irresolvable cycle of resistance and cooptation so often found in Cultural and Popular Music Studies

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Mainstream · Media studies · Personhood · Political science · Popular culture · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society

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