Global linguistic flows : hip hop cultures, youth identities, and the politics of language / edited by H. Samy Alim, Awad Ibrahim, Alastair Pennycook.

Other author Alim, H. Samy.
Other author Ibrahim, Awad.
Other author Pennycook, Alastair, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
Descriptionxi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008009107
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