Although it’s a uniquely American art form, hip-hop has spread across the world as a tool for social change.
Hip-hop, though a uniquely American art form, has spread across the world as a tool for social change.
The genre has been the voice of various generations demanding social change and even revolution: Rappers in Tibet are using hip-hop to preserve the traditional language. And in Tunisia, hip-hop even helped launch the Arab Spring.teaches a course on global hip-hop at American University. Hip-hop gives a voice to marginalized people everywhere who feel like they’re being oppressed or ignored by society, he says.
And he says people without resources to play instruments or money for music lessons can use their mouths to make music. “Since across the globe, the majority of people are marginalized in some way, shape, or form,” Dibinga says, “it would make sense that hip-hop would translate across the world like that.”
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