Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan Schweig Meredith
A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history.Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan…
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A close look at how Taiwanese musicians are using rap music as a creative way to explore and reconcile Taiwanese identity and history.Like many states emerging from oppressive political rule, Taiwan saw a cultural explosion in the late 1980s, when nearly four decades of martial law under the Chinese Nationalist Party ended. As members of a multicultural, multilingual society with a complex history of migration and colonization, Taiwanese people entered this moment of political transformation eager to tell their stories and grapple with their identities. In Renegade Rhymes, ethnomusicologist Meredith Schweig shows how rap music has become a powerful tool in the post-authoritarian period for both exploring and producing new knowledge about the ethnic, cultural, and political history of Taiwan. Schweig draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, taking
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