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Cultural Expressions of the Male UnderclassThis review covers two books on a similar subject, but in different socio-economic contexts.Both deal with the subculture of rap and hip hop, albeit from different theoretical and methodological backgrounds.Moritz Ege's work Ein Proll mit Klasse: Mode, Popkultur und soziale Ungleichheiten unter jungen Männern in Berlin (A Prole with Class: Fashion, Pop Culture and Social Inequalities among Young Men in Berlin) is an ethnographic cultural analysis of Berlin's male sub-proletariat of the early 2000s.It is thereby situated in one of the centres of the Global North, where deindustrialisation and the precarisation of the workforce led to a dramatic increase of social exclusion (Bude and Willisch, 2008; Castel and Dörre, 2009).Roberto Camargos' Rap e Política: Percepções da vida social brasileira (Rap and Politics: Perceptions of Brazilian Social Life) is methodologically based on conceptions of "history from below" (Camargos, p. 28) and deals with the emergence and development of politically engaged rap from the Brazilian peripheries from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.Thus Camargos writes about cultural politics (Alvarez, Dagnino and Escobar, 1998) of the marginalised in one of the most unequal countries in the Global South.Differing from Germany, Brazilian exclusion has its roots in slavery and has affected a majority of the population throughout history.While Camargo focuses on the active performers of rap and hip hop, Ege emphasises the milieu of the younger generation of hip hop fans.Employing Elias' (2004) concept of "figuration",
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