"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
As an extended ethnographic account of the GRASSROOTS! performance event in the aftermath of 2012's Hurricane Isaac, this article follows the musicians involved in one corner of the New Orleans rap scene. This piece looks at disaster, recovery, and change through the eyes of rap musicians navig...
Main Author: | Holly Hobbs |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2015-05-01
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Series: | Southern Spaces |
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Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/42551 |
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