How is the tension between national and transnational identities expressed through music and/or oral culture?
The assignment description:
“The musical components of hip hop are a hybrid form nurtured by the social relations of the South Bronx where Jamaican sound system culture was transplanted during the 1970s and put down new roots. […] Here we have to ask how a form which flaunts and glories in its own malleability as well as its transnational character becomes interpreted as an expression of some authentic African-American essence?” (Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic, 1993)
With reference to two or more texts studied on the course, how is the tension between national and transnational identities expressed through music and/or oral culture? You do not have to refer to the Black Atlantic in your answer.
– Where the word “text” is used, it should be understood to refer to any primary text (from a single poem to a 450-page novel) studied on the module.
The primary source for the lecture in that week where selected poems by Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott and Linton Kwesi Johnson
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