Global Linguistic Flows Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, And the Politics of Language

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