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From Nueva Canción to hip-hop: An entangled history of hip-hop in-between Chile and Sweden
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Individual and Society (IS).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5754-3696
2017 (English)In: Scandia, ISSN 0036-5483, Vol. 83, no 1, p. 68-97Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Denna artikel kombinerar ett entangled history perspektiv med muntlig historia för att analysera förhandlingar av identitetskonstruktioner genom hiphop mellan Sverige och Chile. Artikeln är baserad på intervjuer med hiphopartister i Chile och hiphopartister med chilensk bakgrund i Sverige som konstruerar, använder och fyller olika identiteter med mening inom specifika historiska sammanhang. Artikeln består av fyra analysnivåer. Den första analysnivån lyfter den historiska kontexten inom vilken hiphopkulturen uppstod i båda länder från 1980-talet fram till idag. Denna utveckling diskuteras även mot bakgrund av hiphop som genre med historiska rötter i USA. Den andra analysnivån utgår från en komparativ läsning av dessa historiska kontexter som bland annat tar hänsyn till transnationella maktförhållanden mellan Sverige och Chile. På en tredje analysnivå fokuserar artikeln på influenser och kontakter som har haft en avgörande betydelse för hiphoppens utveckling, medan den fjärde och sista nivån diskuterar hur artister i båda länder skapar kontinuitet eller brott med det förflutna. Artikelns slutsats är att artister i båda länder fyller en chilensk eller latino-identitet med mening beroende på olika uppfattningar och tolkningar av det förflutna. Genom att kombinera ett entangled history perspektiv med muntlig historia hävdar artikeln att dessa identitetskonstruktioner är både baserade på specifika berättelser om det förflutna och föreställd inom och över olika nationsgränser.

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This article has used a combined framework of entangled history and oral history to analyze the creation and negotiation of a Chilean or Latino artist identity by Hip-hop artists in Chile, and Hip-hop artists with a Chilean background in Sweden. It discusses the way in which such artist identities are constructed, used, and filled with meaning within specific historical contexts. The article focuses on four levels of analysis. On the first level, it outlines the historical context within which Hip-hop emerged in each country from the 1980s until today based on interviews with the artists as well as earlier research on Hip-hop. This includes discussing Hip-hop in both countries as connected to Hip-hop as a genre with origins in the United States. On the second level, the article engages in a comparative reading of these historical contexts that, among others, takes into account the transnational relationship between Chile and Sweden. The third analytical level outlines influences and connections that have had a significant impact on the development of Hip-hop culture, above all in Chile, while a fourth and final analytical level focuses on the way in which the artists create continuity or discontinuity with the past. As a result, this article demonstrates that being Chilean or Latino acquires different meanings as individual artists change their understanding or interpretation of the past. Thereby, it demonstrates that identities are both based on specific narratives of the past, and imagined within and across national boundaries.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stiftelsen Scandia , 2017. Vol. 83, no 1, p. 68-97
Keywords [en]
Entangled history, oral history, hip-hop, Chile and Sweden
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Humanities and the Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-2950ISI: 000406567300004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85022087068Local ID: 23663OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-2950DiVA, id: diva2:1399750
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-12-03Bibliographically approved
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1. Remembering Chile: an entangled history of Hip-hop in-between Sweden and Chile
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2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

What does it mean when Hip-hop artists in both Sweden and Chile claim a Chilean or Latino artist identity? How can these identities be understood against the background of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile and its immediate and long-term consequences? This study sets out to answer these questions by focusing on the intersection of Hip-hop culture and the Chilean diaspora in Sweden after 1973. Based on a close reading of lyrics, as well as interviews with Hip-hop artists in both countries, it traces the way in which the artists position themselves, and in turn are positioned in different historical narratives in, and in-between the two countries. In terms of a Swedish past, this study discusses their identities in connection to a narrative based on inclusion – the narrative of the good Sweden (det goda Sverige) – and a narrative based on exclusion – the narrative of the old Sweden (det gamla Sverige). In terms of remembering a Chilean past on the other hand, it discusses them in connection to narratives based on either remembering or forgetting the atrocities committed by the Pinochet regime. By using an entangled history approach, this dissertation adds an explicitly historical, cultural and transnational perspective to the study of the connection between Chile and the Chilean diasporization process in Sweden after 1973. 

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Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society, 2016. p. 168
Series
Skrifter med historiska perspektiv, ISSN 1652-2761 ; 16
Keywords
Hip-hop, Kulturell identitet, Ungdomar, Chile, Sverige, Hiphop
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7572 (URN)21101 (Local ID)9789171047106 (ISBN)9789171047113 (ISBN)21101 (Archive number)21101 (OAI)
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Paper IV is not included in the fulltext online.

Paper IV in dissertation as accepted manuscript.

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