Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas

Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas By Hankin, Charlie D Published by University of Virginia Press Publication Date: 2023-07-31 Subject: Cuba, Haiti, Literary Criticism Subjects & Themes - General, Music Genres & Styles Pop Vocal, Music History & Criticism, Music Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal, Music History & Criticism - General, Music Reviews & Criticism, Music Reviews And Criticism, Music Genres & Styles Pop Vocal, Music, Genres & Styles, Pop Vocal, Music History & Criticism, History & Criticism Subject Keywords: African diaspora; Agencia Cubana de Rap; aldea; global village; Los Aldeanos; Aldo Al2; literacy; Jean-Bertrand Aristide; aurality; Autobiografía del esclavo poeta; El B; bailes funk; bailes black; funk carioca; Bárbaro “El Urbano"; Padêro MC; Erivan “Produtos do Morro”; Barikad Crew; gangs; marginality; Black feminism; Blackness; Blackness in Brazil; Blackness in Cuba; Blackness in Haiti; Black Atlantic; Black Power; Blackness and hip hop; Brazil; Cuba; Haiti; Afro-Brazilian culture; breakbeat; breakdance; capitalism; Caribbean; Caribbean poetics; Caribbean culture; censorship; commercialization of hip hop; commodification; community-building; community writing; consciousness-raising; cosmopolitanism; Afro-Cuban hip hop; Cuban hip hop festivals; Cuban Revolution; cultural nationalism; cultural imperialism; décima; decolonization; D-Fi Powèt Revòlte; Duvalier dictatorship; favela; Fortaleza; flow; financialization; festivals; freestyle; ghetto; globalization; guerreira; Haitian Revolution; hip hop cubano; hypermasculinity; imperialism; improvisation; intertextuality; jazz; hip hop cultures; lyric poetry; Racionais MC’s; marronage; militarism; neighborhood; neoliberalism; New York City; orality; Papá Humbertico; periferia; graffiti; Port-au-Prince; Havana; radio; raplove; recursion; reggaeton; rhyme; Rio de Janeiro; São Paulo; sampling; slavery; trap; utopia; violence Genre: Music, Genres & Styles, Pop Vocal, Music, History & Criticism Target Audience: Professional and scholarly