TY - BOOK ID - 78071008 TI - Cape Verde, let's go PY - 2015 SN - 0252097769 9780252097768 025203967X 9780252039676 9780252081170 025208117X 9780252039676 PB - Urbana DB - UniCat KW - Creole dialects, Portuguese KW - Rap (Music) KW - Rap musicians KW - Cabo Verdeans KW - Cape Verdeans KW - Ethnology KW - MCs (Rap musicians) KW - Rappers KW - Musicians KW - Hip-hop music KW - Rap songs KW - Rappin' (Music) KW - Rapping (Music) KW - African Americans KW - Monologues with music KW - Popular music KW - Trip hop (Music) KW - Portuguese Creole languages KW - Social aspects KW - History and criticism. KW - Music KW - Cape Verde Creole dialect. KW - Brava Island Creole dialect KW - Cabo Verde Creole dialect KW - Cape Verdean Creole dialect KW - Kabuverdianu dialect KW - Portugal UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071008 AB - Musicians rapping in kriolu --a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language but its culture and history. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, Derek Pardue introduces Lisbon's kriolu rap scene and its role in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. Pardue demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a postcolonial context that remains poorly understood. As he argues, knowing more about both Cape Verdeans and the Portuguese invites clearer assessments of the relationship between the experience and policies of migration. That in turn allows us to better gauge citizenship as a balance of individual achievement and cultural ascription. Deftly shifting from domestic to public spaces and from social media to ethnographic theory, Pardue describes an overlooked phenomenon transforming Portugal, one sure to have parallels in former colonial powers across twenty-first-century Europe. ER -