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| Titles | Aural Traditions: Indigenous Youth and the Hip-Hop Movement in Canada |
| Name | Karyn Recollet |
| Type of Resource | text |
| Genre | Thesis |
| Abstract | --Description taken from "Aural Traditions, Indigenous Youth and the Hip-Hop Movement in Canada"-- In my dissertation I discuss Native emcees' use of hip-hop music to critically engage their contemporary environments by creating new ways of speaking about themselves, their relationships to cities, and their collective historical memory of traditionally Indigenous lands. The contemporary urban poetry of hip-hop emcees pieces together a collective memory of space and time through contextualizing Indigenous lived experience such as the residential schools which have perpetuated a passed-down grieving. Through examining the lyrics and the narratives of individual emcees, this project illustrates their collective insights and memories, exposing the activism and intelligence embedded within emcee voicing. My work reveals that emcee practices of mimicry, parody, comedy, wordplay, and the ethic of 'keepin' it real,' disrupt 'discourses of dominance'(Vizenor, 1994), and introduce new ways to speak about the cities as Indigenous space. This project utilizes a fusion of methods including interviewing and discourse analysis to identify how urban spaces are being thought about, navigated, and negotiated. My project includes emcee testimonials that reveal the critically conscious and transformational voicings of hip-hop emcees participating in an oral-based movement which resonates with the oratorical genius and activism of past and present Indigenous leaders. The writing style of this dissertation adopts a storytelling methodology, interweaving poetry, activist, and scholarly writing to mirror the creative dialogue produced within emcee prose in formulating counter-narratives that shape new visions of what it means to be Indigenous in a contemporary urban context. |
| URL | https://search.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/734408031/previewPDF/E5BF5A2284A24E76PQ/34?accountid=14739 |
| Form | text |
| Note | This document is a Preview |
| Access Condition | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher |
| Subject Hierarchical Geographic | North America--Canada------ |
| Subject Local Name | --Traditional--Youth--Canada------------ |
| Access Condition | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher |