Urban Myths and Rural Legends: An Alternate Take on the Regionalism of Hip Hop

de Paor-Evans, Adam orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-4797-7495 (2020) Urban Myths and Rural Legends: An Alternate Take on the Regionalism of Hip Hop. Popular Music and Society, 44 (3). ISSN 0300-7766

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2020.1730651

Abstract

The practices of hip hop evolved during the mid-1970s in New York City’s dilapidated neighbourhoods and are almost exclusively represented through the fabric of inner-city life. However, over the past forty years hip hop has produced diverse regional-rural agendas within the core elements of the culture, reflected in its sound. By exploring hip hop culture in the West Country, UK, this article locates hip hop’s regional-rural origins to attest its productions evolve differently to that of metro-centric artists, coexisting as vehicles for negotiating socio-geographical acceptance and affirming a regional-rural identity. These alternate modes of practice enrichen the wider hip hop community by developing relationships with traditional regional culture and producing new narratives to challenge hip hop’s conventions.


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