ISBN:
9780415890045
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (195 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
Parallel Title:
Print version White Hip-Hoppers, Language and Identity in Post-Modern America
DDC:
306.44089/09073
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate with Hip-Hop culture. Hip-Hop youth engage in practices that range from thec onsumption of rap music and fashion to practices like MC-ing (writing and performing raps or ""rhymes""), DJ-ing (mixing records to produce a beat for the MC), graffiti tagging, and break-dancing. Cutler explores the way in which these young people stylize their speech using linguistic resources drawn from African American English and Hip-Hop slang terms. She also looks at the way they construct their identi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Transcription Conventions; Preface; Acknowledgements; Permissions; 1 Introduction: White Youth and the Appeal of Hip Hop Culture in the 1990s; 2 Yorkville Crossing: A Case Study of the Influence of Hip Hop Culture on the Speech of a White Middle Class Adolescent in New York City; 3 "Keepin' It Real": White Hip Hoppers' Discourse on Language, Race, and Authenticity; 4 Hip Hop, White Immigrant Youth, and African American English: Accommodation as an Identity Choice
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Brooklyn Style: Hip Hop Markers and Racial Affiliation among European Immigrants in New York City6 MC Battles: Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other; 7 "She's So Hood": Ghetto Authenticity on Reality TV; 8 Conclusion: Implications for Theories of Style, Identity Formation, and the Status of African American English in the Hip Hop Age; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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