«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.
Notes
This article was originally written in French, but an English translation of the work can be found here:
https://www.academia.edu/28938350/_Were_not_for_sale_The_political_economy_of_rap_in_post_revolutionary_Tunisia
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.