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

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.

H. Samy Alim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Awad Ibrahim is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Alastair Pennycook is Professor of Language Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technololgy, Sydney, Australia.

@contents: Selected Contents
INTRO
"Straight Outta Compton, Straight aus München: Global Linguistic Flows, Identities, and the Politics of Language in a Global Hip Hop Nation" – H. Samy Alim


DISC ONE
Styling locally, styling globally:
The Globalization of Language and Culture in a Global Hip Hop Nation


TRACK ONE
"Hip-Hop as Dusty Foot Philosophy: Engaging Locality" – Alastair Pennycook and Tony Mitchell

TRACK TWO
"Language and the Three Spheres of Hip-Hop" – Jannis Androutsopoulos

TRACK THREE
"Conversational Sampling, Race Trafficking, and the Invocation of the "gueto" in Brazilian Hip-Hop" – Jennifer Roth-Gordon

TRACK FOUR
" ‘You shouldn't be rappin, you should be skateboardin the X-games’:
The Co-construction of Whiteness in an MC Battle" – Cecelia Cutler

TRACK FIVE
"From Da Bomb to Bomba: Global Hip Hop Nation Language in Tanzania" – Christina Higgins

TRACK SIX
"‘So I choose to do am Naija style’: Hip-Hop, Language and Postcolonial Identities" – T. Omoniyi


DISC TWO
The Power of the Word:
Hip Hop Poetics, Pedagogies, and the Politics of Language in Global Contexts


TRACK SEVEN
"‘Still reppin por mi gente’: The Transformative Power of Language Mixing in Quebec Hip-Hop" – Mela Sarkar

TRACK EIGHT
"‘Respect for da chopstick Hip Hop’: The politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy of Cantonese Verbal Art in Hong Kong" – Angel Lin

TRACK NINE
"Rhyme and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop in Japan" – Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis

TRACK TEN
"‘That's all concept; it’s nothing real’: Reality and Lyrical Meaning in Rap" – Michael Newman

TRACK ELEVEN
"Creating ‘an empire within an empire’: Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and the Role of Sociolinguistics" – H. Samy Alim

TRACK TWELVE
"Takin Hip-Hop to a Whole Nother Level: Métissage, Affect and Pedagogy in a Global Hip-Hop Nation" – Awad Ibrahim

HIP-HOP HEADZ aka LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS