'Iraq is the new Black': Performing Arabness in Arab American hip-hop

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" 'Iraq is the new Black': Performing Arabness in Arab American hip-hop "
Timothy J. Dolan Tuohy, Sue M. C.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	803033
Doc. No	:	TL47806
Call number	:	‭1554688954;‮ ‬1557849‬
Main Entry	:	Dolan, Timothy J.
Title & Author	:	'Iraq is the new Black': Performing Arabness in Arab American hip-hop\ Timothy J. DolanTuohy, Sue M. C.
College	:	Indiana University
Date	:	2014
Degree	:	M.A.
field of study	:	Folklore and Ethnomusicology
student score	:	2014
Page No	:	105
Note	:	Committee members: Leon, Javier; Orejuela, Fernando
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-303-96157-1
Abstract	:	This thesis examines the words and works of six Arab American rappers who use hip-hop music as a tool to create and represent selves that are informed by both individual experience and multiple group identities. In doing so, each of these six artists confront a particular category of identity, the category of the 'Arab' or the 'Arab American,' a label with multiple interpretations and meanings. It draws on the theories of Foucault, Butler, and Nora to argue that each of these artists uses the power of hip-hop as a discursive medium to grapple with the normative concept of Arabness, using words to take control of the patterns of signification associated with this category and to reorganize its meanings, both within public discourses and within their own understandings of self.
Subject	:	Folklore; Music; Ethnic studies
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Arabness;Hip-hop;Identity;Memory;Normativity;Technologies of the self
Added Entry	:	Tuohy, Sue M. C.
Added Entry	:	Folklore and EthnomusicologyIndiana University