Table of Contents

@contents: Selected Contents

INTRO

"Straight Outta Compton, Straight aus München: Global Linguistic Flows, Identities, and the Politics of Language in a Global Hip Hop Nation" – H. Samy Alim

DISC ONE

Styling locally, styling globally:

The Globalization of Language and Culture in a Global Hip Hop Nation

TRACK ONE

"Hip-Hop as Dusty Foot Philosophy: Engaging Locality" – Alastair Pennycook and Tony Mitchell

TRACK TWO

"Language and the Three Spheres of Hip-Hop" – Jannis Androutsopoulos

TRACK THREE

"Conversational Sampling, Race Trafficking, and the Invocation of the "gueto" in Brazilian Hip-Hop" – Jennifer Roth-Gordon

TRACK FOUR

" ‘You shouldn't be rappin, you should be skateboardin the X-games’:

The Co-construction of Whiteness in an MC Battle" – Cecelia Cutler

TRACK FIVE

"From Da Bomb to Bomba: Global Hip Hop Nation Language in Tanzania" – Christina Higgins

TRACK SIX

"‘So I choose to do am Naija style’: Hip-Hop, Language and Postcolonial Identities" – T. Omoniyi

DISC TWO

The Power of the Word:

Hip Hop Poetics, Pedagogies, and the Politics of Language in Global Contexts

TRACK SEVEN

"‘Still reppin por mi gente’: The Transformative Power of Language Mixing in Quebec Hip-Hop" – Mela Sarkar

TRACK EIGHT

"‘Respect for da chopstick Hip Hop’: The politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy of Cantonese Verbal Art in Hong Kong" – Angel Lin

TRACK NINE

"Rhyme and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop in Japan" – Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis

TRACK TEN

"‘That's all concept; it’s nothing real’: Reality and Lyrical Meaning in Rap" – Michael Newman

TRACK ELEVEN

"Creating ‘an empire within an empire’: Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and the Role of Sociolinguistics" – H. Samy Alim

TRACK TWELVE

"Takin Hip-Hop to a Whole Nother Level: Métissage, Affect and Pedagogy in a Global Hip-Hop Nation" – Awad Ibrahim

HIP-HOP HEADZ aka LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

About the Author

UCLA and New York University, USA University of Ottawa, Ontario University of Technology, New South Wales, Australia