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“Chant Down the System ‘till Babylon Falls”: The Political Dimensions of Underground Hip Hop and Urban Grooves in Zimbabwe

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In Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital and hub of cultural activity, two youth movements – Underground Hip Hop and Urban Grooves – are portrayed as, or lay claim to be, representing Hip hop. Yet, they espouse very different definitions of Hip hop. Although Urban Grooves is essentially an umbrella term for urban pop music that blends Afro-diasporic genres, mainly dancehall, r&b, and rap, with local elements, it has been described as Zimbabwean Hip hop since some Urban Groovers have adopted rapping, the fashion style, as well as the materialistic and misogynistic outlook of mainstream American rappers. In contrast, Underground Hip Hop artists perceive Hip hop as a counterculture in which rap is valued as a powerful voice to uplift, educate, and speak out against oppression. It is important to clearly differentiate between Underground Hip Hop and Urban Grooves, since the ‘Underground’ status of the Hip hop movement, on one side, and the emergence of Urban Grooves as a mainstream genre in early 2000, on the other, are tied up with specific state policies that aim to undermine protest music by promoting young artists to record pro-government or apolitical music. This has resulted in a mainstream/underground dichotomy that runs along political and ideological lines.

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Judul Seri

The Journal of Pan African Studies

No. Panggil

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: Pan African Studies., 2013

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The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.6, no.3, September 2013

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English

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MUSIK - SEJARAH DAN KRITIK

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