Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language

by Alim; H. Samy

• ISBN13: 9780805862836
• ISBN10: 0805862838
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 these two separate yet interconnected areas of study. The borderline between Hip Hop culture and language pedagogy is fruitful but rarely explored. By looking at Hip Hop sociolinguistically and applying diverse applied linguistics frameworks, the authors explore the relations between language, popular culture, identity , and pedagogy, and offer a complex reading of the politics of language education through detailed ethnographic, critical discourse analysis, and sociolinguistic studies of Hip Hop culture in locally and globally diverse contexts. Overall, this book looks at the ways in which multilingual identities are performed within Hip Hop culture. A missing gap in the Hip Hop literature is the centrality and anin-depth analysis of the very medium that is used to express and perform Hip Hop -- language. Global Linguistic Flows fills this gap.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Shout Outs	p. ix
Intro: Straight Outta Compton, Straight aus Munchen: Global Linguistic Flows, Identities, and the Politics of Language in a Global Hip Hop Nation	p. 1
Styling Locally, Styling Globally: The Globalization of Language and Culture in a Global Hip Hop Nation
Hip Hop as Dusty Foot Philosophy: Engaging Locality	p. 25
Language and the Three Spheres of Hip Hop	p. 43
Conversational Sampling, Race Trafficking, and the Invocation of the Gueto in Brazilian Hip Hop	p. 63
"You shouldn't be rappin', you should be skateboardin' the X-games": The Coconstruction of Whiteness in an MC Battle	p. 79
From Da Bomb to Bomba: Global Hip Hop Nation Language in Tanzania	p. 95
"So I choose to Do Am Naija Style": Hip Hop, Language, and Postcolonial Identities	p. 113
The Power of the Word: Hip Hop Poetics, Pedagogies, and the Politics of Language in Global Contexts
"Still Reppin Por Mi Gente": The Transformative Power of Language Mixing in Quebec Hip Hop	p. 139
"Respect for Da Chopstick Hip Hop": The Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy of Cantonese Verbal Art in Hong Kong	p. 159
Dragon Ash and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop: On the Notion of Rhyme in Japanese Hip Hop	p. 179
"That's All Concept; It's Nothing Real": Reality and Lyrical Meaning in Rap	p. 195
Creating "An Empire Within an Empire": Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and the Role of Sociolinguistics	p. 213
Takin Hip Hop to a Whole Nother Level: Metissage, Affect, and Pedagogy in a Global Hip Hop Nation	p. 231
Hip Hop Headz aka List of Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 253
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