The Song Readers: Rap Music and the Politics of Storytelling in Taiwan

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of Taiwan's hip-hop scene and an examination of rap music's emergence as a trenchant form of musical narrative discourse in the post-martial law era (1987 to the present). Its central argument is that performers have invoked rap as a storytelling...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schweig, Meredith Lynne
Other Authors: Shelemay, Kay Kaufman
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2013
Subjects:
rap
Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10942
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11107807