Bounce: Rap Music and Cultural Survival in New Orleans
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For the past five years, I have been engaged with the rap music scene of New Orleans, where a local subgenre called "bounce" has coexisted with more mainstream expressions since the early 1990s. Bounce is a form of rap music that is heavily oriented towards dancing, which uses particular sonic markers in the form of samples and tempi as well as a call-and-response form of rapping based upon hooks or chants, and which often includes lyrical themes that refer to neighborhoods or other places in the city, as well as cultural practices that are associated with it. In this paper, I will discuss my approach to the subject of bounce and locally produced rap music in general. I will discuss my methodology, which is an interdisciplinary one combining traditional research methods with documentary filmmaking. I will give a brief overview of the history of bounce, and attempt to describe its general characteristics and the settings in which it plays out. Finally, I will briefly discuss the ways in which the recent hurricane relates to discussion of rap music in the city.
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