Pipelines And Tight Rhymes: Virtual Media And Hip-Hop In Japan & New Zealand

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Pipelines And Tight Rhymes: Virtual Media And Hip-Hop In Japan & New Zealand

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This thesis looks at hip-hop as a contemporary pop cultural phenomena and its relationship with media in the construction of underground hip-hop communities in Japanese and New Zealand settings. My work on hip-hop in Japan illustrates how global networks influence a traditionally mono-cultural society reckoning with a style connected to African-American experience. A New Zealand setting illustrates how virtual networks allow connections to wider hip-hop culture from a geographically isolated ...

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27 Feb, 2024

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Witty, Andrew William Peter

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hip-hop / Japan / New Zealand / School: New Zealand School of Music / 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology / 950101 Music / Degree Discipline: Musicology / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Music / Musicology and Ethnomusicology / Musicology and ethnomusicology

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