Global linguistic flows hip hop cultures, youth identities, and the politics of language /

This cutting-edge book, located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, brings together for the first time an international group of researchers who study Hip Hop textually, ethnographically, socially, aesthetically, and linguistically. It is the harvest of dialogue between thes...

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Other Authors: Alim, H. Samy., Ibrahim, Awad., Pennycook, Alastair, 1957-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hip hop as dusty foot philosophy : engaging locality / Alastair Pennycook and Tony Mitchell
  • Language and the three spheres of hip hop / Jannis Androutsopoulos
  • Conversational sampling, race trafficking, and the invocation of the gueto in Brazilian hip-hop / Jennifer Roth-Gordon
  • "You shouldn't be rappin', you should be skateboardin' the x-games" : the coconstruction of whiteness in an MC battle / Cecelia Cutler
  • From da bomb to bomba : global hip hop nation language in Tanzania / Christina Higgins
  • "So I choose to do am Naija style" : hip hop, language, and postcolonial identities / Tope Omoniyi
  • "Still reppin por mi gente" : the transformative power of language mixing in Quebec hip hop / Mela Sarkar
  • "Respect for da chopstick hip hop" : the politics, poetics, and pedagogy of Cantonese verbal art in Hong Kong / Angel Lin
  • Dragon ash and the reinterpretation of hip hop : on the notion of rhyme in Japanese hip hop / Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis
  • "That's all concept; it's nothing real" : reality and lyrical meaning in rap / Michael Newman
  • Creating "an empire within an empire" : critical hip hop language pedagogies and the role of sociolinguistics / H. Samy Alim
  • Takin hip hop to a whole nother level : métissage, affect, and pedagogy in a global hip hop nation / Awad Ibrahim.