‘People Were Waiting for That’: Protest Rap and Public Mood in Bishkek

Global Hiphopography

“…This far more holistic practice of cultural research was conceived of as a way to ethically sustain the communityrooted knowledge which only those within that community can fully articulate. Williams and Singh's focus on using Spady's methodology on a global scale, while largely effective, could have been applied further than the standard geographical boundaries such as Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom to include underrepresented places like Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Coppenrath 2022). This, however, is not a negative but rather an advantageous next step for the, now expanded, field of global Hip Hop studies which is now more than 40 years old.…”