Hanouneh style resistance. Becoming hip-hop authentic by balancing skills and painful lived experiences

Hanouneh style resistance. Becoming hip-hop authentic by balancing skills and painful lived experiences

Hanouneh style resistance. Becoming hip-hop authentic by balancing skills and painful lived experiences
Andrea Dankic Article The aim of this article is to examine the dialogically constructed authenticity between an independent hip-hop and reggae artist and her audience and how this construction in turn influences the music-making process, art production and artist identity. It is argued that authenticity is constructed by the artist deconstructing the expected connections between on the one hand particular cultural belongings, lived experiences and ethnic origins, and…