Le Hip-hop in France: An Interview with Felicia McCarren

Abstract

Hip hop is perhaps the most globally recognizable form of cultural production that has emerged from a North American context. Here, Felicia McCarren, Professor of French at Tulane University and author of French Moves: The Cultural Politics of Le Hip Hop (2013), discusses the French urban dance movement of le hip hop and the ways in which it departs from the popular U.S. American understanding of hip hop culture.