TY - JOUR
T1 - Afropolitan Projects
T2 - Music, Representation, and the Politics of Belonging in Australia
AU - McConnell, Bonnie B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/3/15
Y1 - 2019/3/15
N2 - Drawing on ethnographic research in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra (2016–2017), this article examines the way musicians articulate positive African-Australian identities in the face of political and media discourse that emphasizes African difference and criminality. I use the concept of “Afropolitan projects” to describe the way musicians’ express complexity and multiplicity, simultaneously forging allegiances across difference and foregrounding the African roots of contemporary popular music.
AB - Drawing on ethnographic research in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra (2016–2017), this article examines the way musicians articulate positive African-Australian identities in the face of political and media discourse that emphasizes African difference and criminality. I use the concept of “Afropolitan projects” to describe the way musicians’ express complexity and multiplicity, simultaneously forging allegiances across difference and foregrounding the African roots of contemporary popular music.
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U2 - 10.1080/03007766.2017.1413618
DO - 10.1080/03007766.2017.1413618
M3 - Article
SN - 0300-7766
VL - 42
SP - 131
EP - 149
JO - Popular Music and Society
JF - Popular Music and Society
IS - 2
ER -