Political Poetics of Arab Rap as a Form of Memorial Culture
The purpose of the article is to analyse modern Arab rap culture in the politics of memory. The author analyses the tactics and strategies of imagining and inventing the past, its ideologically and politically motivated reinterpretations in the discourse of Arabic rap. The novelty of the study li...
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African Studies
2023-12-01
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| description | The purpose of the article is to analyse modern Arab rap culture in the politics of
memory. The author analyses the tactics and strategies of imagining and inventing the past, its
ideologically and politically motivated reinterpretations in the discourse of Arabic rap. The novelty of
the study lies in the analysis of Arabic rap as a form of memory politics, since most academic studies
of memorial culture are limited to the analysis of the visualization and actualization of the past in the
nationalist and political imagination, which leads to ignoring the texts of modern mass culture and
consumer society as forms and dimensions of the mnemonic space. The article analyses the
contribution of Arabic rap to the formation and development of modern memorial culture in contexts
of the historical memory of the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The article also
analyses a wide range of problems presented in the Arabic rap discourse. It is presumed that texts of
the rap singers inspire the fragmentation of the Arab societies, actualising and visualising various
versions of the memorial culture. It is assumed that rap as a form of mass culture can significantly
influence the politics of memory as one of the spaces for the actualization and visualization of various
memorial canons inspired by the generational differences in ideological and political preferences of
Arab societies in contexts of the transformation of collective historical memory. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d7754c7f64ac43a88ec00bc2a416a6d72025-08-20T02:16:34ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, Institute for African StudiesУченые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук2412-57173034-34962023-12-019413114310.31132/2412-5717-2023-65-4-131-143Political Poetics of Arab Rap as a Form of Memorial CultureKYRCHANOFF Maksym Valeryevich0Dr.Sc. (History), Associate Professor of the Department of Regional Studies and Economics of Foreign Countries, Faculty of International Relations, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Foreign Countries and Oriental Studies, Faculty of History, Voronezh State University (Voronezh, Russian Federation)The purpose of the article is to analyse modern Arab rap culture in the politics of memory. The author analyses the tactics and strategies of imagining and inventing the past, its ideologically and politically motivated reinterpretations in the discourse of Arabic rap. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of Arabic rap as a form of memory politics, since most academic studies of memorial culture are limited to the analysis of the visualization and actualization of the past in the nationalist and political imagination, which leads to ignoring the texts of modern mass culture and consumer society as forms and dimensions of the mnemonic space. The article analyses the contribution of Arabic rap to the formation and development of modern memorial culture in contexts of the historical memory of the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The article also analyses a wide range of problems presented in the Arabic rap discourse. It is presumed that texts of the rap singers inspire the fragmentation of the Arab societies, actualising and visualising various versions of the memorial culture. It is assumed that rap as a form of mass culture can significantly influence the politics of memory as one of the spaces for the actualization and visualization of various memorial canons inspired by the generational differences in ideological and political preferences of Arab societies in contexts of the transformation of collective historical memory.https://africajournal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kirchanov_Politicheskaya-Poэtika.pdfarabic rappolitical protesthistorical politicspolitics of memorymemorial culturehistorical imagination |
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| topic | arabic rap political protest historical politics politics of memory memorial culture historical imagination |
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