24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins (Dance and Performance Studies, 14)

The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from widespread dissatisfaction and malaise.

• | Author: Andrew B. Armstrong
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 204 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1789202671
• | ISBN-13: 9781789202670