Head-nodders, Gang Signs, and Bounce: Authenticating Music-Accompanying Body Practices in Rap.

Eisewicht, Paul; Dietrich, Marc

Review article (book contribution)

Abstract

(Youth) scenes are often described as micro- or social subcultures that form around a specific theme, are linked to ways of acting oriented towards it and are stabilised by their own norms and values. What appears chaotic and incomprehensible from the outside is a coherent, consistent and vivid whole from the inside perspective. From this perspective, the text deals with the largely unexplored practice of bouncing in rap as a specific music-accompanying bodily practice. By means of a material analysis of the connection between rap music, the self-presentation of rappers and the music-accompanying actions of concert-goers, it is to be shown that such specific actions are by no means arbitrary, but are embedded in the scene's knowledge predecessor and can be interpreted with a view to this.

Details zur Publikation

Book title: Formations of Style and Affiliation. Materiality and Mediality in Youth Scenes.
Release year: 2024
ISBN: 978-3-658-42324-7
Language in which the publication is written: English
Event: Wiesbaden
Link to the full text: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-42325-4_11