Rappin' on the Tyne: white hip hop culture in Northeast England

Journal/Book: Sociol Rev. 1999; 47: 108 Cowley Rd, Oxford Ox4 1Jf, Oxon, England. Blackwell Publ Ltd. 1-24.

Abstract: This article offers an ethnographic account of the significance of rap music and hip hop culture for white youth in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in north-east England. Although white appropriations of black music in Britain have been well documented in sociological work, there is currently very little research on white responses to rap and hip hop. During the course of this article I identify two distinct responses on the part of white Newcastle youth to rap and hip hop. I then go on to argue that, despite their differing nature, each of these responses can be seen as bound up with issues of locality and local experience.

Note: Article Bennett A, Univ Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, Kent, ENGLAND

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Rappin' on the Tyne: white hip hop culture in Northeast England - an ethnographic study