Bibliograph

Cape Verde, let's go, Creole rappers and citizenship in Portugal, Derek Pardue

Type

Label

Cape Verde, let's go, Creole rappers and citizenship in Portugal, Derek Pardue

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cape Verde, let's go

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

928384946

Responsibility statement

Derek Pardue

Series statement

Ebsco eBook Collection

Sub title

Creole rappers and citizenship in Portugal

Summary

Musicians rapping in kriolu --a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language but its culture and history. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, Derek Pardue introduces Lisbon's kriolu rap scene and its role in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. Pardue demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a postcolonial context that remains poorly understood. As he argues, knowing more about both Cape Verdeans and the Portuguese invites clearer assessments of the relationship between the experience and policies of migration. That in turn allows us to better gauge citizenship as a balance of individual achievement and cultural ascription.--, Provided by publisher

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