“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island
Through a contextualization of the song, “Don’t Call Me Eskimo,” which was launched on the interactive website YouTube in 2007 and an analysis of three examples of hip hop culture drawn from her ethnographic fieldwork on Baffin Island in June/July 2008, the author makes the argument that hip hop cul...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/20248 2023-05-15T15:35:22+02:00 “Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island Marsh, Charity 2013-02-11 application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/20248 eng eng The Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/20248/23350 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/20248 Copyright (c) 2015 MUSICultures MUSICultures; Volume 36 (2009) 1920-4221 1920-4213 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2013 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-11-05T23:58:29Z Through a contextualization of the song, “Don’t Call Me Eskimo,” which was launched on the interactive website YouTube in 2007 and an analysis of three examples of hip hop culture drawn from her ethnographic fieldwork on Baffin Island in June/July 2008, the author makes the argument that hip hop culture in Nunavut enables a re-working of contemporary Inuit identity. As part of this re-working, Inuit youth mediate representations of themselves and their current lived experiences through mobile technologies and local networks, challenging common stereotypes and reified identities that continue to circulate in political, cultural, and national discourses. Article in Journal/Newspaper Baffin Island Baffin eskimo* inuit Nunavut University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Baffin Island Nunavut |
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Through a contextualization of the song, “Don’t Call Me Eskimo,” which was launched on the interactive website YouTube in 2007 and an analysis of three examples of hip hop culture drawn from her ethnographic fieldwork on Baffin Island in June/July 2008, the author makes the argument that hip hop culture in Nunavut enables a re-working of contemporary Inuit identity. As part of this re-working, Inuit youth mediate representations of themselves and their current lived experiences through mobile technologies and local networks, challenging common stereotypes and reified identities that continue to circulate in political, cultural, and national discourses. |
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“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island |
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“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island |
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“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island |
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“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island |
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“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island |
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“don’t call me eskimo”: representation, mythology and hip hop culture on baffin island |
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The Canadian Society for Traditional Music / La Société canadienne pour les traditions musicales |
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2013 |
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Baffin Island Baffin eskimo* inuit Nunavut |
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Baffin Island Baffin eskimo* inuit Nunavut |
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MUSICultures; Volume 36 (2009) 1920-4221 1920-4213 |
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