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Global Hiphopography

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Editors:
  1. Quentin Williams

    1. Linguistics Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

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  2. Jaspal Naveel Singh

    1. School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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  • Combines a focus on methods with unparalleled geographical scope
  • Provides a reflexive account of how to research in culturally sustainable and ethical ways
  • Platforms voices that have been silenced, including practitioners, activists and scholars from the Global South

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About this book

This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of advancing Hiphopographic research as a critical methodology with critical fieldwork methods that can provide a critical perspective of our world. The authors’ focus in this volume is to present an anthology of essays that expand the remit of Hiphopography as an approach to the study of Hip Hop that is not only sensitive to the social, economic, political and cultural lives of Hip Hop Culture participants as interpreters and theorists, but one that continues to humanize the “whole person” behind the decks, on the mic, rocking on the linoleum floor, painting in front of a wall, and seeking that Knowledge of Self. This book will be relevant to Hip Hop scholars in fields such as cultural studies and history, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and ethnography, and race studies, while Hip Hop heads themselves will find parts of this book that represent their culture in ethical and informative ways.

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction: Hip Hop’s Here, There… and Everywhere—An Introduction to Global Hiphopography

    • Quentin Williams, Jaspal Naveel Singh
    Pages 1-25

  3. Now Check the Method

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Public Enemy, Public Scholarship: Hiphopography and the Co-production of Knowledge with Chuck D

      • H. Samy Alim, Samuel Lamontagne, Tabia Shawel, Dexter Story, Alexander Williams, Mercedes Douglass et al.
      Pages 29-56

    3. Rappin’ for Rap’s Sake: Towards T.R.A.P. Research for Collective Liberation

      • Casey Philip Wong, Keith Cross, Omar Gaytan, Josue Hernandez
      Pages 57-89

    4. Recalculating…: Hiphopography and Decentring Scholarship

      • Adam Haupt
      Pages 91-109

    5. Relational Hiphopography: Some Notes on Shared Study

      • Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
      Pages 111-129

    6. Homeboys: A Photo Essay on Delhi’s Underground Hip Hop Culture

      • Sahil Saxena
      Pages 131-155

  6. Fear of a Black Planet

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. Translocal Hip Hop Aesthetics: Contemporary Performances in Brazilian Hip Hop

      • Marcos Morgado
      Pages 273-298

    3. Racialization and Strategic/Normalized Otherness: A Hiphopography of Danish and Finnish Rap Scenes

      • Elina Westinen, Kristine Ringsager
      Pages 299-334

  7. Politricks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-335
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    2. Real and Hypocrisy: The “Moral Turn” in Chinese Hip Hop Music

      • Shimin Zhang
      Pages 337-364
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Linguistics Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

    Quentin Williams

  • School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Jaspal Naveel Singh

About the editors

Jaspal Naveel Singh is a hip hop head, knowledge producer and soul searcher. He currently works as a Lectuer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK. His first monograph Transcultural Voices: Narrating Hip Hop Culture in Complex Delhi (2022) develops a hiphopographic approach called global hip hop linguistics to study breakers, graffiti artists, musicians and rappers in the emergent scenes in urban India. Originally from Germany, he has lived and worked in India, Hong Kong and Wales.

 

Quentin Williams is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research and an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His most recent books are Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship with Tommaso Milani and Ana Deumert (2022) and NevaAgain: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in post-apartheid South Africa with Adam Haupt, H Samy Alim and Emile YX? (2019). 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Hiphopography

  • Editors: Quentin Williams, Jaspal Naveel Singh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21955-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21954-2Published: 28 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21957-3Due: 28 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21955-9Published: 27 July 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 466

  • Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Music, Cultural History, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime

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