Decolonizing the ear: echolocating “Race” in French rap music
Decolonizing the ear: echolocating “Race” in French rap music
This paper proposes using Pauline Alexis Gumbs’ re-definition of “Echolocation” in Undrowned (2020) as a means of re-thinking music intertextuality in the French Rap songs analyzed here. This process aims to identify discourses across transnational music by focusing on issues pertaining to race and environmental racism in the context of the French refusal to use the socially constructed term “race” to address racial discrimination in the country. This enables French rappers to inscribe their work within a discourse that embraces this vocabulary.
Abd al Malik, Aimé Césaire, Echolocation, Marine Life, Pauline Alexis Gumbs, Rap Music
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Champion, Giulia
1eea3a93-f0d1-44e0-a438-ead183ea6f62
4 November 2022
Champion, Giulia
1eea3a93-f0d1-44e0-a438-ead183ea6f62
Champion, Giulia
(2022)
Decolonizing the ear: echolocating “Race” in French rap music.
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 26 (4-5), .
(doi:10.1080/17409292.2022.2107273).
Abstract
This paper proposes using Pauline Alexis Gumbs’ re-definition of “Echolocation” in Undrowned (2020) as a means of re-thinking music intertextuality in the French Rap songs analyzed here. This process aims to identify discourses across transnational music by focusing on issues pertaining to race and environmental racism in the context of the French refusal to use the socially constructed term “race” to address racial discrimination in the country. This enables French rappers to inscribe their work within a discourse that embraces this vocabulary.
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Decolonizing the Ear Echolocating Race in French Rap Music
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Published date: 4 November 2022
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Abd al Malik, Aimé Césaire, Echolocation, Marine Life, Pauline Alexis Gumbs, Rap Music
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/472999
ISSN: 1740-9292
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