The Languages of Global Hip HopMarina Terkourafi 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. |
Contents
A Fresh Look at Some Old Questions | 1 |
1 Multilingualism Ethnicity and Genre in Germanys Migrant Hip Hop | 19 |
Symbolic Dimensions of Arabic English and Verlan in French Rap Texts | 44 |
Language Use and Localization in Egyptian Hip Hop | 67 |
Minority Voices in Hungarian Hip Hop | 96 |
Probing the Sociolinguistic Parameters of German Gangsta Rap Lyrics | 120 |
South Korean HipHop Playas | 139 |
The Global HipHop Poetics and Politics of the Imiskoumbria | 162 |
The Conflicts and Contradictions of Cypriot Hip Hop | 194 |
9 Hip Hop Ethnicity and Linguistic Practice in Rural and Urban Norway | 223 |
Regional Identity Markers in US Hip Hop | 256 |
Anglicisms in the German HipHop Community | 277 |
Ghetto Authenticity on the White Rapper Show | 300 |
Glossary of HipHop Terms | 329 |
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