«On n’est pas à vendre». L’économie politique du rap dans la Tunisie post-révolution
Published
10-3-2016
Type of Work
Article - Journal
Abstract
The paper reconstructs the links between the rap scene and the post-revolutionary political environment in Tunisia. It shows how politics, in different forms, penetrated the scene economy and disciplined it through several mechanisms of inclusion and repression. Such a political economy of rap realized, in the musical context, the logics of domination that Béatrice Hibou had individuated in pre-revolutionary Tunisia. In so doing, it unleashed conflicts of political/artistic legitimacy between rappers, which constantly restructured the scene itself.
Citation
Golpushnezad, E. & Barone, S. (2016). “We’re not for sale.” The political economy of rap in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Politique africaine, 141, 27-51. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.141.0027