Global Linguistic Flows Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language |
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| Editor:
| Ibrahim, Awad
Alim, H. Samy
Pennycook, Alastair |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8058-6285-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $64.95 |
Book Description:
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This cutting-edge book, located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, brings together for the first time an international group of researchers who study Hip Hop textually, ethnographically, socially, aesthetically, and linguistically. It is the harvest of dialogue between these two separate yet interconnected areas of study.A missing gap in the Hip Hop literature is the centrality and an in-depth analysis of the very medium that is used to express and perform Hip...
More DescriptionThis cutting-edge book, located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, brings together for the first time an international group of researchers who study Hip Hop textually, ethnographically, socially, aesthetically, and linguistically. It is the harvest of dialogue between these two separate yet interconnected areas of study.A missing gap in the Hip Hop literature is the centrality and an in-depth analysis of the very medium that is used to express and perform Hip Hop -- language. Global Linguistic Flows fills this gap.