Episode Synopsis "Global Hip-Hop "Keeping it real.""

As part of the International Studies Program at Trinity College "Global Hip-Hop cultures" is a course that helps students reflecting on how Hip-Hop as a cultural and political movement reached out to youth globally. Through a Hip-Hop studies approach, we traveled the world, unveiling a set of core concepts, discourses, and frameworks that helped us to observe hip-hop's global emergence. To understand Hip-hop's main characteristics and how these characteristics support connections between youth from different countries. We reflected on the makings and meanings of hip-hop as an instrument for identity formation. To observe hip-hop as a global phenomenon, we approached hip-hop formation in New York in the 1970s as a starting point for this African Diaspora production. However, we also highlight hip-hop as a diverse and plural movement that has its own Diaspora.   Through the literature cannon, we utilize authors such as Jeff Chang, Tony Mitchell, Murray Forman, Sujatha Fernandes, and MK Asante. to contextualize the importance of hip-hop in this millennium. In addition, we had the chance to engage with different scholars and artists that helped us observe hip-hop's impact in each place where it developed. Knowing that 'Keeping it real is key to hip-hop recognition, our journey took us to the different regions and countries, introducing the main aspects that drove the local youth to hip-hop and the definition of authenticity offered by local participants. We went from the Bronx to Paris, Hungary, Palestine, Samoa, Australia, South Africa, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, and many others during our journey. We also approached hip-hop produced by indigenous groups such as Native Americans and Aboriginal and ethnic minorities like Roma people in East Europe. In each of these places, hip-hop has been used as a tool to express non-conformity, denounce exclusion, and claim sovereignty. Students have watched videos and documentaries of hip-hop artists worldwide, observing how artists from different nationalities, races, ethnicities, classes, and genders have used hip-hop to express non-conformity to their realities. In addition, students had the chance to explore their own emotions through creative assignments. Besides, students produced this podcast's episodes to analyze and situate rhymes and artists in hip-hop's local and global context. You will find the results of these projects on this podcast.

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