Culture Making Articles items tagged hip-hop

Mongolian Bling

2025-01-02T22:53:00Z

Nate: ?I have mixed feelings about this teaser (designed to help get funding for the film, which hasn't been made yet) because, I guess, it falls back on certain cliches to further its stated aim of breaking stereotypes. Perhaps it's just a necessary hoop to jump through, and it sounds like a very cool and worthwhile project. Still, there's a delicious irony to it all: easterners adopting and adapting western poses, for the service of westerners wanting a bit of the eastern coolness to rub off (and angling to take said easterners on a mystical journey—"nomadic" being a downright talismanic term for a certain sort of electronica-meets-world-music afficionado—to explore their culture's musical roots).?

Mongolian Bling: Adventures in Nomadic Hip Hop teaser :: via 3quarksdaily

Ugandan hip-hop doc

2025-01-02T22:53:00Z

Nate
: ?Trailer for "Diamonds in the Rough," a documentary about anti-war and -corruption themed hip-hop in Uganda. Looks fascinating and inspiring, though I'm just a tad troubled that, as with Wim Winders' wonderful "Buena Vista Social Club" film, the transcendent climax involves the musicians from the developing world making a triumphant and adulatory tour in the West.?

via Boing Boing

A bit of 1990s Kenyan public transit hip-hop

2025-01-02T22:53:00Z

Nate
: ?There's quite a lot of cultural info and aspiration packed into this video. I'm not sure whether its plea for greater public safety fell, or would fall, on the young men who work for Nairobi's privately-provided public transit.?

Look, Think, Stay Alive, by Jimmy Gathu, 1993 :: via Africanhiphop.com

Surreal & the Sound Providers, “The Place to Be”

2025-01-02T22:53:00Z

Nate
: ?Suggested soundtrack for Chapter 15 of Culture Making: "The 3, the 12, and the 120." About the close partnership of creating a new cultural good. And as with much pleasing hip-hop, the song is about the song.?