Hip-hop
B-boys, b-girls and rappers on Seville's hip hop identity
Seville and flamenco belong together like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Yet the Andalusian city also gained a reputation in the nineties for establishing a new genre of Spanish-speaking hip hop. Bands like SFDK grew in tower block neighbourhoods such as the one-time 'Bronx of Seville', Pino Montano
hip-hop, music, andalusia, multiculturalism, spain, seville, culture
Revolution rapper Mohamed El Deeb, Tahrir square's figurehead
Some musical genres, like rap and hip hop, developed so as to voice the rage of victims of injustice. Yet how many times has such ‘protest music’ really brought about a new revolution? The Egyptian rapper went out onto the streets to make real the change he evokes in his texts
European hip hop between Brussels, Amsterdam, Hanover and London
The opening of the 2011 Lezarts urban dance festival at Brussels’ centre of fine arts (Bozar) in mid-February was more relaxed and accessible than usual. We meet choreographers, b-boys and the folks at the European laboratory of hip hop dance
What happens when you mix 20 European hip-hop artists up
Diversidad, diversité, diversity, diversità, pазноврсност, raznovrsnost, diversidade...all in the name of an urban culture project supported by the European institutions, no less! A Paris-based Bosnian journalist meets the raw talent of European hip-hop, who collaborated on an album in Brussels for release in February 2011
hip-hop, festivals, urban dance, europe, culture, street art, culture calendar
