Performing "the Other": Rap as Social Change in the Danish Integration Project C:NTACT

Helle Bach Riis

Performing "the Other": Rap as Social Change in the Danish Integration Project C:NTACT

Helle Bach Riis

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Abstract

A group of youngsters perform their self-composed rap lyrics on stage in the Betty Nansen Theater in Copenhagen. The theater claims, that the performance portraits the youngsters as they truly are – as opposed to the medias portrayal. The play is part of an integration project, co-financed by the Danish Ministry of Integration.
This essay presents a critical analysis of the representation of the youngsters on stage. The analysis is especially based on the concepts of performance and performativity and on hip-hop as a genre framework for the representation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Hip-hop in Europe
Editors	Sina A. Nitzsche
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	LIT Verlag
Publication date	2013
Pages	345-363
ISBN (Print)	9783643904133
Publication status	Published - 2013

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