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- Title
Beyond cultural reterritorialization: Rapping for Islam in London's East End.
- Authors
Midolo, Elena Dominique
- Abstract
This article explores the role of contemporary music in the lives of young Muslims in Great Britain. For this group, music has emerged as a powerful tool in the negotiation of personal and group identity, and is also a marker of the way in which Muslims have arguably come to be positioned differently to other diasporic groups, notably Afro-Caribbean, in recent times (Modood 2006). In contrast to recent (macro) sociological analysis that has compared Islamic life and culture in different European countries, and also that which has focused on specific, local communities (the 'micro' approach), the research reported upon here has operated at a 'meso' level: mapping the interactions between local Muslim social/cultural spaces (specifically, Tower Hamlets and Camden in East London) with the supranational expression of Muslim identity as represented by the ummah. More specifically, this article focuses on Islamic hip hop culture as a medium for articulating complex cultural representations at the individual and collective level.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BRITISH popular music; RETERRITORIALIZATION; SOCIOLOGICAL research; RELIGIOUS life in Islam; MUSLIMS; SOUTH Asian diaspora
- Publication
Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 2011, Vol 2, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
2040-4344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/cjmc.2.73_1