Indigenous hip-hop: Overcoming marginality, encountering constraints

Australian Geographer

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 141-158

  Warren, Andrew ^a   Evitt, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Creativity; Hip hop; Indigenous; Marginalisation; Nowra; Patron discourses; Performance; Torres Strait Islands; Young people

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; FESTIVAL; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARGINALIZATION; MUSIC;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUEENSLAND; SHOALHAVEN; TORRES STRAIT; TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS;

AUCHENORRHYNCHA;

EID: 77950871012     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049180903535659     Document Type: Article

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