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Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses 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.
Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts such as rap music, song lyrics, electronic and digital media, oral performances and cinema and brings together issues and concepts that are explored in the disciplines of folklore, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, discourse studies and New Literacies Studies.
| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Black/folk/discoursez: OutKast and "The Whole World" | p. 1 |
| Black and African American Vernacular Discourses | p. 1 |
| A working definition of African American rap/Hiphop discourse | p. 9 |
| "OutKast" of the whole world | p. 12 |
| Crosscultural vibrations: the shared language of contestation of Jamaican Dancehallas and American Hiphoppas | p. 22 |
| Hiphop and Dancehall discourse | p. 25 |
| Precolonial and enslavement mix | p. 31 |
| Black strugglers' mix | p. 35 |
| Conclusion | p. 40 |
| Young women and critical Hiphop literacies: their readings of the world | p. 41 |
| Black femalehiphophood in print: the ghetto girl | p. 44 |
| Some women are and some women aint: digital Black femalehiphophood | p. 47 |
| Ride or Die B, Jezebel, Lil' Kim or Kimberly Jones and African American women's language and literacy practices: the naked truf | p. 56 |
| Black women and the myth of Jezebel | p. 58 |
| Jezebel on trial | p. 60 |
| Kimberly Jones and African American female literacies | p. 64 |
| The strong Black woman doing verbal battle | p. 66 |
| Did Kimberly Jones lie to us? | p. 70 |
| "Yo mein rap is phat wie deine Mama": African American language in online German Hiphop, or identifying the global in global Hiphop | p. 71 |
| German Hiphop offline and on | p. 73 |
| Data analysis | p. 75 |
| What it be? Hiphop's ideology | p. 76 |
| Content morpheme/codeswitching | p. 77 |
| System morpheme/code mixing | p. 86 |
| Embedded language/codeswitching | p. 90 |
| Calquing | p. 92 |
| Hiphop and video games | p. 97 |
| Def Jam Vendetta | p. 99 |
| Identification | p. 101 |
| Interaction | p. 103 |
| Producer | p. 104 |
| Agency | p. 104 |
| Appendix | p. 105 |
| Notes | p. 124 |
| References | p. 128 |
| Index | p. 137 |
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ISBN: 9780415329286
ISBN-10: 0415329280
Series: Literacies
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 160
Published: 16th August 2006
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 24.13 x 15.88
x 1.27
Weight (kg): 0.37
Edition Number: 1
