Comments on: The great Nigerian Hip-Hop debates http://carmenmccain.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-great-nigerian-hip-hop-debates/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:53:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Katrin http://carmenmccain.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-great-nigerian-hip-hop-debates/#comment-415 Katrin Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:27:18 +0000 http://carmenmccain.wordpress.com/?p=237#comment-415 oh, I forgot to mention Masquelier works on Hausa youth culture in Niger rather than Nigeria ... some of the arguments of youth she collected are just amazingly sharp and clever - basically: God made them a Rapper. oh, I forgot to mention Masquelier works on Hausa youth culture in Niger rather than Nigeria … some of the arguments of youth she collected are just amazingly sharp and clever – basically: God made them a Rapper.

]]> By: Katrin http://carmenmccain.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-great-nigerian-hip-hop-debates/#comment-414 Katrin Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:25:40 +0000 http://carmenmccain.wordpress.com/?p=237#comment-414 Carmen, that is fascinating stuff ones more ... it ties in quite interestingly with a presentation I attended at SOAS about a month ago. Caroline Mose who is writing her PhD about East African Hip-Hop was looking at some of the so-to-say battle lines Abati suggests, in particular the tension between the adaptation of a Western musical model (though the fact that is is an Afro-American rather than primarily "white" cultural form is certainly of great significance here) and regionalised/localised originality ... equally interesting also that Adeline Masquelier's presentation in Liverpool 2008 suggested the importance of HipHop to local Hausa youth while most of my (Muslim) Hausa friends in Nigeria seem to have preferred Hausa music of the kind more commonly used in the films ... not sure to which extent this might have to do with the circles in which I moved but all immensely fascinating (and distracting from what I should be reading and writing about) ... Wishes to Kano Carmen, that is fascinating stuff ones more …

it ties in quite interestingly with a presentation I attended at SOAS about a month ago. Caroline Mose who is writing her PhD about East African Hip-Hop was looking at some of the so-to-say battle lines Abati suggests, in particular the tension between the adaptation of a Western musical model (though the fact that is is an Afro-American rather than primarily “white” cultural form is certainly of great significance here) and regionalised/localised originality …

equally interesting also that Adeline Masquelier’s presentation in Liverpool 2008 suggested the importance of HipHop to local Hausa youth while most of my (Muslim) Hausa friends in Nigeria seem to have preferred Hausa music of the kind more commonly used in the films … not sure to which extent this might have to do with the circles in which I moved but all immensely fascinating (and distracting from what I should be reading and writing about) …

Wishes to Kano

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