Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Sunday, August 07, 2005
al-ahram does a story on muslim hip-hop
The Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram recently published a piece called Hip-Hop Islam by Hesham Samy Abdel-Alim on how hip-hop has gone global and interacted with the Muslim world (where "Muslim" is used to include Nation folks and Five Percenters as well as Sunnis) From Mos Def and Public Enemy and Wu-Tang to more recent musicians from the Middle East, hip-hop is making connections.
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