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.
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