- Crate Digging Begins at Home: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s Bronx
- The Strain of the Voice: Hip Hop’s Ambient Vocalities
- Between Live Performance and Mediated Narrative: Contemporary Rap Battle Culture in Context
- On Politics and Performativity in Atlanta Hip Hop Party Culture, Or How to Get Crunk with (Body and) Words
- “Check Out the Hook While My DJ Revolves It”: How the Music Industry Made Rap into Pop in the Late 1980s
- For Those in the “Ghetto Torture Chambers”: Iceberg Slim, Pulp Authenticity, and the Noir Tradition in Hip Hop
- “I’m Ready to Die”: The Notorious B.I.G., Black Love, and Death
- Vocal Vulnerabilities: The New Masculinities of Millennial Hip Hop
- From Black Hipsters to Black Hippy: Flow and the Cultural Genealogy of “Neo-Bohemian” Hip Hop
- Properly Compensating Artists in Academic Hip Hop Research
- Intersectionality in American Sign Language Hip Hop Interpreting
- All in the Family: The Contested Meanings of Mothers, Fathers, and Children in Hip Hop Culture
- Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems: Hip Hop and Luxury’s Uneasy Partnership
- Recuperating the Real: The Liberation Imperative of Hip Hop Authenticity
- Hip Hop Life Writing: An Intermedial Challenge to Essentialist Reading Practices
- Hip Hop as Martial Art: A Political Economy of Violence in Rap Music
- “I Still Don’t Understand Award Shows”: Kanye West and Hip Hop Celebrity in the Twenty-First Century
- Prince Paul’s Psychoanalysis: What Is It?: The Rap Album as Psychoanalytic Self-Exploration
- Hip Hop Music and (Reading) the Narrative Soundtracks of New Black Realist Cinema
- Rhythm Technologies, Workflows, and Convergence Culture in Amateur Hip Hop Beat-Making YouTube Videos
- The Ghosts Got You: Exploring the Queer (After) Lives of Sample-Based Hip Hop
- Noise Reconsidered: Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad as Hip Hop Outlier
- Hip Hop without a DJ: Authenticating The Roots in an Era of Sample-Based Hegemony
- Evaluating the Past and Present of Sample-Based Hip Hop
- “Playas” and Players: Racial and Spatial Trespassing in Hip Hop Culture Through Video Games
- Digital, Underground: Black Aesthetics, Hip Hop Digitalities, and Youth Creativity in the Global South
- “When We Gonna Quit? The 31st Of Never!”: Hip Hop Sounds and Sensibilities in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit
- Brazilian Hip Hop in Three Scenes
- Rappalachia: The Performance of Appalachian Identity in Hip Hop Music
- Bucktown vs. 'G' Thang: The Enduring East Coast/West Coast Dialectic in Hip Hop Music
- Remixing the Environment: Climate Change, Rhythm Science, and DJ Spooky’s Digging in the Landscape
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter focuses on three hip hop scenes in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil’s two largest cities. It begins with a discussion of democracia racial (racial democracy), a sociohistorical hypothesis that was taken up as a national point of pride. It argues that the concept is crucial to understand the relations between race and hip hop in the country. The remainder of the chapter focuses on three scenes between the 1980s and the 2010s. It starts with funk carioca, a highly popular dance-oriented music that took off at the funk parties. The second scene is São Paulo rap, which gained national attention with its more dance-averse laid-back beats and scathing commentary on violence and racism. The third and final case study examines funk ostentação, a variant of funk carioca centered on conspicuous consumption. The chapter concludes with a discussion of more recent shifts in hip hop, popular culture, and identity politics in the country.
Keywords: funk carioca, funk ostentação, Brazil, racial democracy, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, popular music, Latin America, rap, Portuguese
Department of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University
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- Crate Digging Begins at Home: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s Bronx
- The Strain of the Voice: Hip Hop’s Ambient Vocalities
- Between Live Performance and Mediated Narrative: Contemporary Rap Battle Culture in Context
- On Politics and Performativity in Atlanta Hip Hop Party Culture, Or How to Get Crunk with (Body and) Words
- “Check Out the Hook While My DJ Revolves It”: How the Music Industry Made Rap into Pop in the Late 1980s
- For Those in the “Ghetto Torture Chambers”: Iceberg Slim, Pulp Authenticity, and the Noir Tradition in Hip Hop
- “I’m Ready to Die”: The Notorious B.I.G., Black Love, and Death
- Vocal Vulnerabilities: The New Masculinities of Millennial Hip Hop
- From Black Hipsters to Black Hippy: Flow and the Cultural Genealogy of “Neo-Bohemian” Hip Hop
- Properly Compensating Artists in Academic Hip Hop Research
- Intersectionality in American Sign Language Hip Hop Interpreting
- All in the Family: The Contested Meanings of Mothers, Fathers, and Children in Hip Hop Culture
- Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems: Hip Hop and Luxury’s Uneasy Partnership
- Recuperating the Real: The Liberation Imperative of Hip Hop Authenticity
- Hip Hop Life Writing: An Intermedial Challenge to Essentialist Reading Practices
- Hip Hop as Martial Art: A Political Economy of Violence in Rap Music
- “I Still Don’t Understand Award Shows”: Kanye West and Hip Hop Celebrity in the Twenty-First Century
- Prince Paul’s Psychoanalysis: What Is It?: The Rap Album as Psychoanalytic Self-Exploration
- Hip Hop Music and (Reading) the Narrative Soundtracks of New Black Realist Cinema
- Rhythm Technologies, Workflows, and Convergence Culture in Amateur Hip Hop Beat-Making YouTube Videos
- The Ghosts Got You: Exploring the Queer (After) Lives of Sample-Based Hip Hop
- Noise Reconsidered: Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad as Hip Hop Outlier
- Hip Hop without a DJ: Authenticating The Roots in an Era of Sample-Based Hegemony
- Evaluating the Past and Present of Sample-Based Hip Hop
- “Playas” and Players: Racial and Spatial Trespassing in Hip Hop Culture Through Video Games
- Digital, Underground: Black Aesthetics, Hip Hop Digitalities, and Youth Creativity in the Global South
- “When We Gonna Quit? The 31st Of Never!”: Hip Hop Sounds and Sensibilities in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit
- Brazilian Hip Hop in Three Scenes
- Rappalachia: The Performance of Appalachian Identity in Hip Hop Music
- Bucktown vs. 'G' Thang: The Enduring East Coast/West Coast Dialectic in Hip Hop Music
- Remixing the Environment: Climate Change, Rhythm Science, and DJ Spooky’s Digging in the Landscape
