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Hiphop literacies / by Elaine Richardson.
Van Pelt Library PE3102.N42 R52 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, Elaine B., 1960-
- Series:
- Literacies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Languages.
- African Americans.
- English language--United States--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Black English.
- United States.
- Rhetoric.
- English language--Social aspects--United States.
- English language--Social aspects.
- Hip-hop--United States.
- Hip-hop.
- Black English--United States.
- Americanisms.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 142 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Summary:
- Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyzes the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture.
- In locating rap and Hiphop discourse within a trajectory of Black discourses, Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts such as rap music, song lyrics, electronic and digital media, oral performances and cinema.
- Hiphop Literacies brings together issues and concepts that are explored in the disciplines of folklore, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, discourse studies and New Literacies Studies.
- Contents:
- 1 Black/folk/discoursez: OutKast and "The Whole World" 1
- Black and African American Vernacular Discourses 1
- A working definition of African American rap/Hiphop discourse 9
- "OutKast" of the whole world 12
- 2 Crosscultural vibrations: the shared language of contestation of Jamaican Dancehallas and American Hiphoppas 22
- Hiphop and Dancehall discourse 25
- Precolonial and enslavement mix 31
- Black strugglers' mix 35
- 3 Young women and critical Hiphop literacies: their readings of the world 41
- Black femalehiphophood in print: the ghetto girl 44
- Some women are and some women aint: digital Black femalehiphophood 47
- 4 Ride or Die B, Jezebel, Lil' Kim or Kimberly Jones and African American women's language and literacy practices: the naked truf 56
- Black women and the myth of Jezebel 58
- Jezebel on trial 60
- Kimberly Jones and African American female literacies 64
- The strong Black woman doing verbal battle 66
- Did Kimberly Jones lie to us? 70
- 5 "Yo mein rap is phat wie deine Mama": African American language in online German Hiphop, or identifying the global in global Hiphop 71
- German Hiphop offline and on 73
- Data analysis 75
- What it be? Hiphop's ideology 76
- Content morpheme/codeswitching 77
- System morpheme/code mixing 86
- Embedded language/codeswitching 90
- Calquing 92
- 6 Hiphop and video games 97
- Def Jam Vendetta 99
- Identification 101
- Interaction 103
- Producer 104
- Agency 104.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-136) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415329280
- 0415329272
- 0203391101
- OCLC:
- 63108372
- Publisher Number:
- 9780415329286
- 9780415329279
- 9780203391105
- Online:
- Publisher description
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