Roc the Mic Right The Language of Hip Hop Culture

Name: Roc the Mic Right The Language of Hip Hop Culture
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ISBN: 9780415358781

ISBN-10: 0415358787

ISBN-13: 9780415358781

Edition: 2007

Authors: H. Samy Alim

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Roc the Mic Right is the first in-depth, book-length analysis of the most pervasive yet least examined aspect of Hip Hop Culture - its language. Hip Hop Culture has captured the minds of youth "all around the world, from Japan to Amsterdam" (like the homie Kurupt say), shaping youth identities, styles, attitudes, languages, fashions, and both physical and political stances. Written in both "Hip Hop Nation Language" and "academic discourse," Alim takes the reader on a journey through Hip Hop's inventive linguistic landscape, deconstructing its discourse and poetics, while highlighting relationships between language, identity and power (from the groundbreaking exploration of the Muslim…

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List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.29" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



Shout outs



"The streetz iz a mutha": The street and the formation of a Hip Hop Linguistics (HHLx)



Verbal Mujahidin in the Transglobal Hip Hop Umma: Islam, discursive struggle, and the weapons of mass culture



"Talkin Black in this White Man's World": Linguistic supremacy, linguistic equanimity, and the politics of language



"Bring it to the cypher": Hip Hop Nation Language



Spittin the Code of the Streets: The strategic construction of a street-conscious identity



"Every syllable of mine is an umbilical cord through time": Toward an analytical schema of Hip Hop poetics



"I'm Pharoahe when I'm on stage; I'm Troy when I'm home in Queens": An interview with Pharoahe Monch


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