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