COMMITTED MUSIC: HIP HOP OF MUSLIM DIASPORA IN EUROPE (Muzyka zaangazowana. Hip-hop diaspory muzulmanskiej w Europie)

Hip Hop cannot be perceived merely from the angle of American culture. As a music genre and a subculture it became a way to articulate aspirations and demands of young people from all over the world. One of the subgenres is Islamic Hip Hop which belongs to the so-called conscious Hip Hop. The article places Hip Hop of European Muslims in the framework comprising the Middle Eastern and the US Hip Hop. Basing on the lyrics, it analyses problems raised by rappers: spiritual life, clash between Western and religious values, negative attitudes towards Islam in the West, politics towards the Middle East (especially in Palestine and Iraq). Islamic Hip Hop is on the one hand a modern tool aimed at transmission of neo-conservative religious contents, on the other hand - it enables raising difficult topics (e.g. terrorism, juvenile delinquency, honour killings). Moreover, it can be perceived as an element of an emerging Muslim consumer culture of the middle class of second and further gene- rations of Muslims in the West.