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Hip-Hop Style and Identity in Toronto

Myrtle D. Millares
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African American
artistic development
artistic style
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b-boy
Canadian hip hop
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DJ
DJ Ariel
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hip-hop cultural perspective
hip-hop pedagogy
hip-hop style
identity
Indigenous sovereignty
inter-cultural communities
intersectional and generational struggle
intersectional identities
Jazzy Jester
local scene
MC LolaBunz
migration
personal narrative
rapper
translocated history

Product details

  • ISBN 9798765110522
  • Weight: 420g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Dec 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

What happens when Hip-Hop’s African American origin story travels around the world and lands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada?

Set amidst Toronto’s increasingly inter-cultural communities, B-boy Jazzy Jester, MC LolaBunz, and DJ Ariel detail the trajectories of their artistic development, honoring Hip-Hop's translocated history while remixing hip-hop cultural perspectives to assert difference as style.

By living with and traversing the web of social imperatives they inhabit, these artists learn to use Hip-Hop’s creative tools to produce knowledge and meanings expressed through sound and movement. Stories of migration, Indigenous sovereignty, and intersectional, generational struggle and triumph become resources for identity (re)creation. Through processes of Signifyin(g) (Gates, Jr., 1988) on performative acts (Butler, 1990), artists reveal how hip-hop pedagogy enables aesthetic negotiations that access raw experiences to cultivate dynamic performances. The resulting narrative portraits provide an intimate understanding of the spaces, people, and communities that fill, shape, and nourish the Toronto Hip-Hop scene.
About Myrtle D. Millares
Myrtle D. Millares is a musician, scholar, climate justice activist, and a long-time student of Hip-Hop and breaking. She is a member of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab and teaches at the Faculty of Music and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. Born in the Philippines, she now lives in Toronto, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

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