ABSTRACT In this paper, I explore how Hip-Hop enthusiasts in the Adelaide and Melbourne scenes related their practices to a romanticised ‘American’ or ‘South Bronx’ origin point. I draw on ethnographic research conducted from 2006 to 2008 to show that while some Hip-Hop fans and artists worked to connect their beliefs and behaviours to an idealised past, others sought to separate themselves from these historical narratives and to establish Australian Hip-Hop as a distinct cultural form. These differences created tensions as people debated how authenticity should be assessed in the Australian context and what it meant to be a Hip-Hop practitioner in Australia.

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锻造传统：2000 年代中期澳大利亚嘻哈音乐的连续性和变化

摘要 在本文中，我探讨了阿德莱德和墨尔本的嘻哈爱好者如何将他们的实践与浪漫化的“美国”或“南布朗克斯”起源点联系起来。我利用 2006 年至 2008 年进行的民族志研究表明，虽然一些嘻哈粉丝和艺术家努力将他们的信仰和行为与理想化的过去联系起来，但其他人则试图将自己与这些历史叙事分开，并将澳大利亚嘻哈音乐确立为一种独特的文化形式。这些差异造成了紧张局势，因为人们在争论如何在澳大利亚背景下评估真实性以及在澳大利亚成为嘻哈从业者意味着什么。