$3.60 » underground http://mp285.com wide world. in a web. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:46:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Shuōchàng: Hip-Hop in China http://mp285.com/2009/01/shuochang-hip-hop-in-china/ http://mp285.com/2009/01/shuochang-hip-hop-in-china/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:16:21 +0000 marisa http://mp285.com/?p=367 Red Star China hip-hopJimmy Wang has a produced a nice little video over at The New York Times. It’s on the underground hip-hop movement in China. According to wikipedia, “The Chinese term for rap is shuōchàng (Simplified Chinese: 说唱; literally “narrative,” actually the name of a traditional genre of narrative singing.”

I can’t post the video on $3.60, but click here to watch. 

NPR also had a nice story on Chinese rap group Red Star (pictured above), and The Lab, a nonprofit studio dedicated to developing hip-hop in China.

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