Dr Dave Hook D.Hook@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom , locality and authenticity
Hook, David
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Abstract
Hip-hop’s export, practise, appropriation and reuse can be found in cultures around the globe from Aborigines in Australia, to Palestinian hip-hop in the Middle East. While a number of academic works already exist examining the development of hip-hop music and culture in the UK, this research is predominantly England and even London-based. Scottish hip-hop has been in existence since the late 1980s but has remained historically a subculture, much less regularly crossing over into wider culture than its English counterpart. Largely a working-class subculture, the barriers that have traditionally existed between Scottish hip-hop and Scottish cultural commentators (and consumers) have added to its creators’ existing feelings of social marginalisation. As principal songwriter with critically acclaimed live hip-hop group Stanley Odd, I have spent a prolonged period intensely studying, writing and producing hip-hop. Examining my own work and that of other leading writers, I argue that by utilising established hip-hop forms filtered through a locally representative voice no other Scottish musical genre is as relevant in chronicling contemporary Scottish society at present.
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (unpublished) |
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Conference Name | It Ain't Where You're From, It's Where You're At: International Hip-Hop Studies Conference |
Start Date | Jun 23, 2016 |
End Date | Jun 24, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Aug 14, 2019 |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2052775 |
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