Global Linguistic Flows (Hardback) By (author) Awad Ibrahim, By (author) H. Sammy Alim, By (author) Alistair Pennycook

Full bibliographic data for Global Linguistic Flows

Title

Global Linguistic Flows

Authors and contributors

By (author) Awad Ibrahim, By (author) H. Sammy Alim, By (author) Alistair Pennycook

Physical properties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 276
Width: 152 mm
Height: 229 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight: 576 g

Audience

College/higher education
General/trade

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780805862836
ISBN 10: 0805862838

Classifications

BISAC category code: LAN009000
BISAC category code: LAN010000
Dewey: 306.44
LC Classification: 2008009107
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: S1.5
BIC subject category: CFB
BISAC category code: EDU020000

Edition

1

Illustrations note

1, black & white illustrations

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Inc

Imprint name

Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group

Publication date

05 September 2008

Publication City/Country

New York/US

Biographical note

UCLA and New York University, USA University of Ottawa, Ontario University of Technology, New South Wales, Australia

Main description

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.

Table of contents

INTRO"Straight Outta Compton, Straight aus Munchen: Global Linguistic Flows, Identities, and the Politics of Language in a Global Hip Hop Nation" -- H. Samy Alim DISC ONEStyling locally, styling globally:The Globalization of Language and Culture in a Global Hip Hop Nation TRACK ONE "Hip-Hop as Dusty Foot Philosophy: Engaging Locality" -- Alastair Pennycook and Tony MitchellTRACK TWO "Language and the Three Spheres of Hip-Hop" -- Jannis AndroutsopoulosTRACK THREE "Conversational Sampling, Race Trafficking, and the Invocation of the "gueto" in Brazilian Hip-Hop" -- Jennifer Roth-GordonTRACK FOUR" 'You shouldn't be rappin, you should be skateboardin the X-games': The Co-construction of Whiteness in an MC Battle" -- Cecelia CutlerTRACK FIVE"From Da Bomb to Bomba: Global Hip Hop Nation Language in Tanzania" -- Christina HigginsTRACK SIX"'So I choose to do am Naija style': Hip-Hop, Language and Postcolonial Identities" -- T. OmoniyiDISC TWOThe Power of the Word:Hip Hop Poetics, Pedagogies, and the Politics of Language in Global Contexts TRACK SEVEN "'Still reppin por mi gente': The Transformative Power of Language Mixing in Quebec Hip-Hop" -- Mela SarkarTRACK EIGHT"'Respect for da chopstick Hip Hop': The politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy of Cantonese Verbal Art in Hong Kong" -- Angel LinTRACK NINE "Rhyme and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop in Japan" -- Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis TRACK TEN "'That's all concept; it's nothing real': Reality and Lyrical Meaning in Rap" -- Michael NewmanTRACK ELEVEN"Creating 'an empire within an empire': Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and the Role of Sociolinguistics" -- H. Samy AlimTRACK TWELVE"Takin Hip-Hop to a Whole Nother Level: Metissage, Affect and Pedagogy in a Global Hip-Hop Nation" -- Awad IbrahimHIP-HOP HEADZ aka LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS