{"title":"Tosin Gbogi","description":"\u003cp\u003eTosin Gbogi explores the vibrant world of Nigerian hip-hop, delving into its cultural roots and artistic expressions. Through engaging narratives, readers gain insight into how music shapes identity and society within contemporary Nigerian arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author’s works offer a thoughtful examination of creativity and influence across Africa's dynamic urban landscapes. Ideal for those interested in \u003cem\u003earts \u0026amp; culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Gbogi’s books invite reflection on the intersection of tradition and modernity in Nigerian music.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nigerian-hip-hop-by-tosin-gbogi-9780197782026","title":"Nigerian Hip-Hop","description":"Nigerian, or Naija, hip-hop has existed for close to 45 years, and throughout its rich history has been influenced by not only imperialist media flows but also enduring discourses of African anti-colonialism and pan-Africanism and the long cultural traffic between Africa and the African diaspora. In Nigerian Hip-Hop, Tosin Gbogi draws upon close readings of lyrics and other media and oral interviews with more than fifty artists to engage fully with the\nculture on its own terms, examining questions lying at the intersection of rap poetics, race, knowledge, and popular culture. Troubling the conventional paradigm in which hip-hop in Nigeria stands squarely for\nimperialist machinery, he directs attention to the culture's provocative meditations on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism. Gbogi tracks these meditations across a wide range of sources, including lyrics, music videos, cover arts, liner notes, photographs, social media, archival materials, and oral interviews. Placing these sources in conversation with one another, he examines them closely for what they reveal about the contemporary trajectories of African popular culture and youth\nresistance.The first comprehensive and systematic study of Nigerian hip-hop--one of the world's oldest and most vibrant of such scenes--this book attends to the literary forms, the\ndensity of ideas, historical encounters, ideological struggles, and the lively internal debates that have animated the culture for more than four decades. In highlighting these, Gbogi engages with a broad array of topics and themes, including those having to do with race, ethnicity, class, gender, language, media and popular culture, youth cultures, and poetry.","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397944819948,"sku":"9780197782026","price":387.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e4c5988c1771d0a18fbf29d2b3eb28a5.jpg?v=1773777245"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/tosin-gbogi.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}