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Hip-hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalisation

Hip-hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalisation 54 Book Reviews among other authors in the book), many Japanese today remain deeply suspicious of foreigners and of multiculturalism; these views, too, must be taken seriously rather than dismissed as voices from the past. The book’s introduction states ‘Japan.. .will never again be able to hold on to an unchallenged model of homogeneity’ (p. 23). But it remains unclear what model will take its place. Given the fact that Japanese society has been based overwhelmingly on notions of ethnic belonging, with a comparatively weak sense of civic belonging (as several chapters of the book discuss), what kind of society will an ethnically heterogeneous Japan turn out to be? How exactly will the historically powerful Japanese emphasis on ethnicity and ancestry come to coexist (as well as conflict) with growing ethnic diversity? This book’s contributors provide a number of tantalising hints, but finally do not fully address these important questions, as perhaps no book written today yet can. GORDON MATHEWS The Chinese University of Hong Kong # 2009 Gordon Mathews IAN CONDRY Durham, Duke University Press, 2006 x249 pp., bibliography, index, ISBN: 0-8223389-3-9, US$22.95 (paper). Had it been published a decade earlier, Hip-hop Japan may have been cited as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Hip-hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalisation

Baulch, Emma
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 10 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2009
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Hip-hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalisation

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54 Book Reviews among other authors in the book), many Japanese today remain deeply suspicious of foreigners and of multiculturalism; these views, too, must be taken seriously rather than dismissed as voices from the past. The book’s introduction states ‘Japan.. .will never again be able to hold on to an unchallenged model of homogeneity’ (p. 23). But it remains unclear what model will take its place. Given the fact that Japanese society has been based overwhelmingly on...
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10.1080/14442210802656894
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Abstract

54 Book Reviews among other authors in the book), many Japanese today remain deeply suspicious of foreigners and of multiculturalism; these views, too, must be taken seriously rather than dismissed as voices from the past. The book’s introduction states ‘Japan.. .will never again be able to hold on to an unchallenged model of homogeneity’ (p. 23). But it remains unclear what model will take its place. Given the fact that Japanese society has been based overwhelmingly on notions of ethnic belonging, with a comparatively weak sense of civic belonging (as several chapters of the book discuss), what kind of society will an ethnically heterogeneous Japan turn out to be? How exactly will the historically powerful Japanese emphasis on ethnicity and ancestry come to coexist (as well as conflict) with growing ethnic diversity? This book’s contributors provide a number of tantalising hints, but finally do not fully address these important questions, as perhaps no book written today yet can. GORDON MATHEWS The Chinese University of Hong Kong # 2009 Gordon Mathews IAN CONDRY Durham, Duke University Press, 2006 x249 pp., bibliography, index, ISBN: 0-8223389-3-9, US$22.95 (paper). Had it been published a decade earlier, Hip-hop Japan may have been cited as

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