The Languages of Global Hip Hop

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.>

About the author

Marina Terkourafi is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Terkourafi, Marina Terkourafi
• Assisted by: Marina Terkourafi (Editor), Tommaso M. Milani (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 22.07.2010
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures
• EAN: 9780826431608
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-3160-8
• Pages: 352
• Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics; Advances in Sociolinguistics