‘THIS IS MY LIFE’ Biography, Identity and Narrative in New Zealand Rap Songs
Issue: Vol 8 No. 3 (2007)
Journal: Perfect Beat
Subject Areas: Popular Music
Abstract:
In her essay on New Zealand hip-hop, Zemke-White focuses on the content of hip-hop lyrics as a way of showing biography, whether real or fictional. She elucidates themes inherent in New
Zealand hip-hop that show clear tropes important to the localisation of a US and now global phenomenon.
Author: KIRSTEN ZEMKE-WHITE