audiobook The Psychology of Artists and the Arts by Edward W.L. Smith in Arts-Photography

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Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics; young ldquo;hip hop desisrdquo; express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities in the United States and their diasporic sensibility as part of a global community of South Asians. She emphasizes the role of appropriation and sampling in the ways that hip hop desis craft their identities; create art; and pursue social activism. Some desi artists produce what she calls ldquo;ethnic hip hop;rdquo; incorporating South Asian languages; instruments; and immigrant themes. Through ethnic hip hop; artists; including KB; Sammy; and Deejay Bella; express ldquo;alternative desiness;rdquo; challenging assumptions about their identities as South Asians; children of immigrants; minorities; and Americans. Hip hop desis also contest and seek to bridge perceived divisions between Blacks and South Asian Americans. By taking up themes considered irrelevant to many Asian Americans; desi performers; such as Drsquo;Lo; Chee Malabar of Himalayan Project; and Rawj of Feenom Circle; create a multiracial form of Black popular culture to fight racism and enact social change.