Pakistani Hip Hop: Buying Culture, Making Art
Like their Western counterparts, Pakistani rappers have cultivated an art that is deeply sensitive to their own realities, transforming a globally commodified hip hop culture into a local art form.
by Khwaja Hamzah Saif
Communities targeted by America’s War on Terror enjoy few luxuries—especially when it comes to art. Since 9/11, art from these communities has been deconstructed in search of political meaning, and reinterpreted to appear legible within dominant Euro-American narratives.
Rap occupies a part…
