The Long Island Rap Renaissance: hip-hop’s suburban turn and America’s changing Black middle class, 1986-1993

Informations projet

LI-RAP

N° de convention de subvention: 101025193

DOI

10.3030/101025193

Projet clôturé le 1 Septembre 2023

Date de signature de la CE 13 Mars 2021

Date de début 4 Octobre 2021

Date de fin 3 Octobre 2023

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 196 590,72

Contribution de l’UE

€ 196 590,72

Coordonné par

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
Ireland

Description du projet

Retracer l’histoire de la banlieue noire du hip-hop pour approfondir la compréhension de son caractère social

L’histoire du hip-hop a généralement été théorisée à travers le prisme social de ses origines urbaines dans le New York post-industriel en tant que musique «de ghetto». Pourtant, de 1986 à 1993, bon nombre des actes les plus innovants et les plus réussis commercialement du genre sont venus de petites villes noires de la banlieue de Long Island. Le projet LI-RAP, financé par l’UE, est le premier travail à explorer cette explosion déterminante de l’innovation hip-hop des banlieues, dans le but d’éclairer plus pleinement l’histoire complexe de la race, de la classe et de la géographie du genre. LI-RAP cadre son récit en examinant la vague rapide de suburbanisation noire de New York dans les décennies post-Droits civiques, et les fortunes changeantes de ces communautés noires peu documentées, qui se considéraient souvent comme une classe moyenne.

Objectif

The Long Island Rap Renaissance: hip-hop’s suburban turn and America’s changing Black middle class, 1986-1993 is the first scholarship to bring together a neglected strand of hip-hop history – that of the major role played by artists from New York’s Black outer suburbs in the international explosion of hip-hop as a cultural and aesthetic force from 1986 – with an account of the history of race, class and Black suburbanization that frames it. Not only does this research mark an important revision in hip-hop studies – which thus far has tended to view hip-hop as quintessentially urban ghetto music, focusing its social analysis on extreme inner-city social/economic marginalization, and occluding the socially and geographically complex reality of hip-hop’s development in the 1980-1990s. It also provides an invaluable youthful lens on the major conjunctural shifts, and losses, experienced by African Americans in post-Civil Rights America. This will bring new insights to debates explored by sociologists like Omi and Winant (1986), Landry (1988), Marable (2002) and Wiese (2004) regarding the increasingly ambivalent experience of race, class and suburbia for middle-class Blacks in the 1980s.
Looking both to the history of hip-hop’s presence in Long Island, to the developments created there and how its music sounded the suburban Black experience, the study will entwine aspects of cultural and aesthetic history, accounting these globally impactful developments in popular music, with a profound social and political history that is particularly pertinent in today’s political climate. The aim will be to achieve a more nuanced generational understanding of race and class at this pivotal moment in history as it fed into hip-hop, its politics and aesthetics. The study will revise these received histories and make legible the true diversity of African American and Afrodiasporic culture(s) in hip hop.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

• lettres › histoire et archéologie › histoire
• lettres › arts › musicologie › études de la musique populaire

Mots‑clés

• Hip Hop Studies
• African American Studies
• Race
• Suburbia
• Black Middle Class
• New York Studies
• Social History
• Cultural History

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMME PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Thème(s)

• MSCA-IF-2020 - Individual Fellowships
  

Régime de financement

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Appel à propositions

H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

Coordinateur

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

• Contribution nette de l'UE: € 196 590,72
• Adresse: WESTERN ROAD ; T12 YN60 Cork ; Irlande
• Type d’activité: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coût total: € 196 590,72