[Linganth] The Globally Familiar -- Hip Hop in Delhi

[Ilana Gershon]

  Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog,  E. Gabriel Dattatreyan  answers  Eléonore Rimbault's
questions addressing his book, The Globally Familiar:  Digital Hip Hop,
Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi.

https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
Ilana

Press Blurb: In *The Globally Familiar* Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces
how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in
India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore
their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through
transnational media worlds. His ethnography focuses on a group of diverse
young, working-class men in Delhi as they take up the African diasporic
aesthetics and creative practices of hip hop. Dattatreyan shows how these
aspiring b-boys, MCs, and graffiti writers fashion themselves and their
city through their online and offline experimentations with hip hop,
thereby accessing new social, economic, and political opportunities while
acting as consumers, producers, and influencers in global circuits of
capitalism. In so doing, Dattatreyan outlines how the hopeful, creative,
and vitally embodied practices of hip hop offer an alternative narrative of
urban place-making in "digital" India.
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