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Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Rap & hip-hop
"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as
engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating
multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing'
multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving
a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic
study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual
participants in the local hip hop culture of Cape Town. In
globalised societies today previously marginalized speakers are
carving out new and innovating spaces to put on display their
voices and identities through the creative use of multilingualism.
This book contributes to the development of new conceptual insights
and theoretical developments on multilingualism in the global South
by applying the notions of stylization, performance,
performativity, entextualisation and enregisterment. This takes
place through interviews, performance analysis and interactional
analysis, showing how young multilingual speakers stage different
personae, styles, registers and language varieties.
What do millennial rappers in the United States say in their music?
This timely and compelling book answers this question by decoding
the lyrics of over 700 songs from contemporary rap artists. Using
innovative research techniques, Matthew Oware reveals how emcees
perpetuate and challenge gendered and racialized constructions of
masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. Male and female artists
litter their rhymes with misogynistic and violent imagery. However,
men also express a full range of emotions, from arrogance to
vulnerability, conveying a more complex manhood than previously
acknowledged. Women emphatically state their desires while
embracing a more feminist approach. Even LGBTQ artists stake their
claim and express their sexuality without fear. Finally, in the age
of Black Lives Matter and the presidency of Donald J. Trump, emcees
forcefully politicize their music. Although complicated and
contradictory in many ways, rap remains a powerful medium for
social commentary.
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(Paperback)
Brian Kayser
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R352
Discovery Miles 3 520
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This book adopts a sociolinguistic perspective to trace the origins
and enduring significance of hip-hop as a global tool of resistance
to oppression. The contributors, who represent a range of
international perspectives, analyse how hip-hop is employed to
express dissatisfaction and dissent relating to such issues as
immigration, racism, stereotypes and post-colonialism. Utilising a
range of methodological approaches, they shed light on diverse
hip-hop cultures and practices around the world, highlighting
issues of relevance in the different countries from which their
research originates. Together, the authors expand on current global
understandings of hip-hop, language and culture, and underline its
immense power as a form of popular culture through which the
disenfranchised and oppressed can gain and maintain a voice. This
thought-provoking edited collection is a must-read for scholars and
students of linguistics, race studies and political activism, and
for anyone with an interest in hip-hop.
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