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1-2: Hip Hop Atlas
  • ISSN: 2632-6825
  • E-ISSN: 2632-6833

Abstract

This article provides a brief overview of hip hop’s development in Germany. First, it explains how rap music and hip hop culture arrived in a divided Cold War Germany in the 1980s. It then traces the music genre’s evolution into one of Germany’s most popular and commercially successful music genres since the country’s reunification in 1990. The contribution affirms that rap music and hip hop culture in Germany continues to reflect, revise and respond to larger social justice issues in German society, such as struggles for racial, ethnic, gender and sexual equality. The author argues that hip hop culture in Germany is a rich, multi-faceted and diverse phenomenon which has been shaped by, responds to, and remains embedded in larger geopolitical and transnational dynamics in Europe and beyond.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Hip-Hop’s Fifth Element: Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Artist-Scholar Collaboration (Award AH/ V002988/1)
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