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Loki's History of Scottish Hip Hop (2019x29)

Uitzenddatum: Jun 19, 2019

Award-winning author Darren 'Loki' McGarvey reveals the history of Scottish hip-hop. Looking back at over 30 years of culture, he speaks to the pioneers in music, dance and art, telling a story of young men and women in Scotland overcoming adversity to express themselves in often-challenging circumstances. Exploring status in culture and language and how young people in the 80s caught on to a industry now worth ten billion dollars a year but are still relatively unknown.