HipHopWhere

The hip hop culture has proven to be powerful movement throughout the world. In its early stages, hip-hop has appeared in countries outside of the United States to be a simple variation of American hip-hop; imitating the American experience in a local context. However, Tony Mitchell, author of Global Voices: hip-hop and Rap Outside of the United States comments that evolution has gradually occurred allowing each area to incorporate features of the language used by people in the community of the international rapper. Mitchell uses the term "glocal" a combination of the words global and local, to describe how the glocal dynamic has reproduced itself in hip-hop and rap scenes the world over, to the extent that it is arguable that rap can now surely be regarded as a universal music language, in whatever language it happens to be in, in whatever part of the world it happens to be produced.  According to Marcella Runell, a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst studying hip hop in education, Hip-Hop music and culture have become a global phenomenon because Hip-Hop is a powerful cultural art form that can be identified as having three particular and unique strengths:
 * 1) Hip-Hop music and culture have the capacity to stimulate the imagination and emotion of  listeners through empirical story telling.
 * 2) Hip-Hop music and culture are able to create a public conversation where multiple experiences as well as multiple intelligences are valued. And,
 * 3) Hip-Hop music and culture act as a public, global sounding board for artists and fans to question universal attitudes about nationality, race, class, and gender representations. (p. 51).

 Examples of hip hop can be found all over the world. We will use the following pages to document examples we find of hip hop for the purposes of social justice throughout the world.


 * Africa
 * Asia
 * Australia
 * Europe
 * Middle Eastern region (part of Europe)
 * North America
 * South America