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HIPHOP BLACK GLOBALITY
AND VERNACULAR COSMPOLITANISM
IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
Remi Warner
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
286C Winters College
Drawing on my year-long fieldwork in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, my presentation examines some of the
ways in which globally circulating hiphop popular musical-cultural forms and practices have been appropriated and
deployed by South African youth to negotiate contemporary and inherited legacies of ascriptive ethnic and racial
identification. I introduce and discuss the concept of ‘Black Globality’ as an alternative framework for understanding the
multiple, varied, and shifting kinds of identifications, affiliations and social imaginaries forged by and between citizens of
the global hiphop nation. The presentation focuses in particular on ‘vernacular cosmopolitan’ hiphop cultural practices
produced under conditions of Black Globality, a primary outcome of which, I argue, is an agonistic ‘fusion of horizons’ and
re-invigorated ethico-political debate.
Remi Warner has a PhD in Social Anthropology from York University. His research explores the politics and poetics of race
and place and the impact of the globalization of Black popular culture on youth identity, cultural politics and racial
formation in post-apartheid Cape Town and Johannesburg. He has also published on Hip Hop in Canada. He currently works
as a researcher with the provincial government while also teaching an undergraduate course, Race, Racism and Popular
Culture, in York’s Department of Anthropology.
For more information contact:
Professor Daniel Yon
Faculty of Education
Tel: 416-736-2100 ext. 88806
Email: dyon@edu.yorku.ca