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WE UP: Indigenous Hip-Hop of the Circumpolar North

WE UP: INDIGENOUS HIP-HOP OF THE CIRCUMPOLAR NORTH

Directed by Priscilla Naungagiaq Hensley, David Holthouse
United States, 2018
Documentary

Synopsis

Forty years after hip-hop was born in the South Bronx, it’s being re-imagined in fresh ways by young Indigenous artists of the North— from Athabascan villages in Alaska, to the capital city of Greenland, to reindeer-herding towns of northern Finland and to the cities beneath arctic Norway.

Synopsis

Forty years after hip-hop was born in the South Bronx, it’s being re-imagined in fresh ways by young Indigenous artists of the North— from Athabascan villages in Alaska, to the capital city of Greenland, to reindeer-herding towns of northern Finland and to the cities beneath arctic Norway.