The Languages of Global Hip Hop (Hardcover)

In the case of hip-hop, the forces of top-down corporatization and bottom-up globalization are inextricably woven. This volume takes the view that hip-hop should not be viewed with this dichotomous dynamic in mind and that this dynamic does not arise solely outside of the continental US. Close analysis of the facts reveals a much more complex situation in which market pressures, local (musical) traditions, linguistic and semiotic intelligibility, as well as each country's particular historico-political past conspire to yield new hybrid expressive genres. This exciting collection looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel and showcases a global scope. It engages with questions of code-switching, code-mixing, the minority language/regional dialect vs. standard dynamic, the discourse of political resistance, immigrant ideologies, youth and new language varieties and will be essential reading for graduates and researchers in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

General

Imprint:	Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Advances in Sociolinguistics
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Editors:	Marina Terkourafi
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-8264-3160-8
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
LSN:	0-8264-3160-7
Barcode:	9780826431608

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