The rap as a battlefield in the representation of the French periphery

Abstract

Known as the second largest rap producer market, behind the United States alone, France is also a space for scientific work on the genre since its first manifestations in the country. In this school, also comparable in depth or even breadth to American academic production - hip hop studies -, the sociologist Karim Hammou has a prominent place. This is due to his extensive research work, still ongoing, which culminated in 2012 in the book Une Histoire du Rap en France, published by the publisher La Découverte.