The Sociolinguistics of Hip-hop as Critical Conscience
Dissatisfaction and Dissent
This book adopts a sociolinguistic perspective to trace the origins and enduring significance of hip-hop as a global tool of resistance to oppression. The contributors, who represent a range of international perspectives, analyse how hip-hop is employed to express dissatisfaction and dissent relating to such issues as immigration, racism, stereotypes and post-colonialism. Utilising a range of methodological approaches, they shed light on diverse hip-hop cultures and practices around the world, highlighting issues of relevance in the different countries from which their research originates. Together, the authors expand on current global understandings of hip-hop, language and culture, and underline its immense power as a form of popular culture through which the disenfranchised and oppressed can gain and maintain a voice. This thought-provoking edited collection is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, race studies and political activism, and for anyone with an interestin hip-hop.
| ISBN: | 9783319592435 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 271 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Rivers, Damian J. Ross, Andrew S. |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 18.01.2018 |
| Untertitel: | Dissatisfaction and Dissent |
| Schlagworte: | discourse analysis discrimination hip hop and identity oppression political activism prejudice protest race slang and jargon vernacular |
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