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

Annotation Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world €“ spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union €“ to explore Hip Hop cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. Focusing closely on language, these scholars of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies, and critical pedagogies offer linguistic insights to the growing scholarship on Hip Hop Culture, while reorienting their respective fields by paying closer attention to processes of globalization and localization. The book engages complex processes such as transnationalism, (im)migration, cultural flow, and diaspora in an effort to expand current theoretical approaches to language choice and agency, speech style and stylization, codeswitching and language mixing, crossing and sociolinguistic variation, and language use and globalization. Moving throughout the Global Hip Hop Nation, through scenes as diverse as Hong Kong€™s urban center, Germany€™s Mannheim inner-city district of Weststadt, the Brazilian favelas, the streets of Lagos and Dar es Salaam, and the hoods of the San Francisco Bay Area, this global intellectual cipha breaks new ground in the ethnographic study of language and popular culture. The Book Engages Complex Processes Such As Transnationalism, (im)migration, Cultural Flow, And Diaspora In An Effort To Expand Current Theoretical Approaches To Language Choice And Agency, Speech Style And Stylization, Codeswitching And Language Mixing, Crossing And Sociolinguistic Variation, And Language Use And Globalization. Moving Throughout The Global Hip Hop Nation, Through Scenes As Diverse As Hong Kong's Urban Center, Germany's Mannheim Inner-city District Of Weststadt, The Brazilian Favelas, The Streets Of Lagos And Dar Es Salaam, And The Hoods Of The San Francisco Bay Area, This Global Intellectual Cipha Breaks New Ground In The Ethnographical Study Of Langauge And Popular Culture.--jacket. 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 Co-construction 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 / T. 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 -- Rhyme And The Reinterpretation Of Hip Hop In Japan / 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 : Metissage, Affect And Pedagogy In A Global Hip-hop Nation / Awad Ibrahim. Edited By H. Samy Alim, Awad Ibrahim, Alastair Pennycook. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Shout Outs......Page 10 Intro: Straight Outta Compton, Straight aus München: Global Linguistic Flows, Identities, and the Politics of Language in a Global Hip Hop Nation......Page 14 DISC 1 Styling Locally, Styling Globally: The Globalization of Language and Culture in a Global Hip Hop Nation......Page 36 TRACK 1 Hip Hop as Dusty Foot Philosophy: Engaging Locality......Page 38 TRACK 2 Language and the Th ree Spheres of Hip Hop......Page 56 TRACK 3 Conversational Sampling, Race Traffi cking, and the Invocation of the Gueto in Brazilian Hip Hop......Page 76 TRACK 4 “You Shouldn’t Be Rappin’, You Should Be Skateboardin’ the X-Games”: The Coconstruction of Whiteness in an MC Battle......Page 92 TRACK 5 From Da Bomb to Bomba: Global Hip Hop Nation Language in Tanzania......Page 108 TRACK 6 “So I Choose to Do Am Naija Style”: Hip Hop, Language, and Postcolonial Identities......Page 126 DISC 2 The Power of the Word: Hip Hop Poetics, Pedagogies, and the Politics of Language in Global Contexts......Page 150 TRACK 7 “Still Reppin’ Por Mi Gente”: The Transformative Power of Language Mixing in Quebec Hip Hop......Page 152 TRACK 8 “Respect for Da Chopstick Hip Hop”: The Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy of Cantonese Verbal Art in Hong Kong......Page 172 TRACK 9 Dragon Ash and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop: On the Notion of Rhyme in Japanese Hip Hop......Page 192 TRACK 10 “Th at’s All Concept; It’s Nothing Real”: Reality and Lyrical Meaning in Rap......Page 208 TRACK 11 Creating “An Empire Within an Empire”: Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and the Role of Sociolinguistics......Page 226 TRACK 12 Takin Hip Hop to a Whole Nother Level: Métissage, Affect, and Pedagogy in a Global Hip Hop Nation......Page 244 Hip-Hop Headz aka List of Contributors......Page 262 Index......Page 266

Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world – spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union – to explore Hip Hop cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. Focusing closely on language, these scholars of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies, and critical pedagogies offer linguistic insights to the growing scholarship on Hip Hop Culture, while reorienting their respective fields by paying closer attention to processes of globalization and localization.

The book engages complex processes such as transnationalism, (im)migration, cultural flow, and diaspora in an effort to expand current theoretical approaches to language choice and agency, speech style and stylization, codeswitching and language mixing, crossing and sociolinguistic variation, and language use and globalization. Moving throughout the Global Hip Hop Nation, through scenes as diverse as Hong Kong’s urban center, Germany’s Mannheim inner-city district of Weststadt, the Brazilian favelas, the streets of Lagos and Dar es Salaam, and the hoods of the San Francisco Bay Area, this global intellectual cipha breaks new ground in the ethnographic study of language and popular culture.

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. A missing gap in the Hip Hop literature is the centrality and an in-depth analysis of the very medium that is used to express and perform Hip Hop -- language. Global Linguistic Flows fills this gap. Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world ' spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union ' to explore Hip Hop Cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. Focusing closely on language, these scholars of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, (Hip Hop) cultural studies, and critical pedagogies offer linguistic insights to the growing scholarship on Hip Hop ..