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The Sociolinguistics of Hip-hop as Critical Conscience

Dissatisfaction and Dissent

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Editors:
  1. Andrew S. Ross

    1. Centre for Teaching and Learning, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

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  2. Damian J. Rivers

    1. Centre for Meta-Learning, Faculty of Systems Information Science Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan

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  • Focuses exclusively on the use of the hip-hop genre as a form of resistance that emerges from the critical conscience of both artists and fans, the first book to do so

  • Looks at hip-hop music and culture in locations as diverse as Australia, Finland, Mongolia, Brazil, Germany, and the USA

  • Breaks down the construct of hip-hop in a manner not yet attempted from the perspective of language and linguistics

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Hip-hop as Critical Conscience: Framing Dissatisfaction and Dissent

    • Andrew S. Ross, Damian J. Rivers
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Linguistic and Lyrical Development of 2Pac in Relation to Regional Hip-hop Identity and Conflict

    • Steven Gilbers
    Pages 13-36

  4. Dimensions of Dissatisfaction and Dissent in Contemporary German Rap: Social Marginalization, Politics, and Identity Formation

    • Leonie Wiemeyer, Steffen Schaub
    Pages 37-67

  5. “77% of Aussies Are Racist”: Intersections of Politics and Hip-hop in Australia

    • Andrew S. Ross
    Pages 69-99

  6. Where is the Love? White Nationalist Discourse on Hip-hop

    • Damian J. Rivers
    Pages 101-129

  7. “Who’s Afraid of the Dark?”: The Ironic Self-Stereotype of the Ethnic Other in Finnish Rap Music

    • Elina Westinen
    Pages 131-161

  8. How the Financial Crisis Changed Hip-hop

    • Steven Gilbers
    Pages 163-189

  9. Dissatisfaction and Dissent in the Transmodal Performances of Hip-hop Artists in Mongolia

    • Sender Dovchin
    Pages 191-211

  10. Counter-Hegemonic Linguistic Ideologies and Practices in Brazilian Indigenous Rap

    • André Marques do Nascimento
    Pages 213-235

  11. The Death of Dissent and the Decline of Dissin’: A Diachronic Study of Race, Gender, and Genre in Mainstream American Rap

    • John P. Racine
    Pages 237-268

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 269-271
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About this book

This book adopts a sociolinguistic perspective to trace the origins and enduring significance of hip-hop as a global tool of resistance to oppression. The contributors, who represent a range of international perspectives, analyse how hip-hop is employed to express dissatisfaction and dissent relating to such issues as immigration, racism, stereotypes and post-colonialism. Utilising a range of methodological approaches, they shed light on diverse hip-hop cultures and practices around the world, highlighting issues of relevance in the different countries from which their research originates. Together, the authors expand on current global understandings of hip-hop, language and culture, and underline its immense power as a form of popular culture through which the disenfranchised and oppressed can gain and maintain a voice. This thought-provoking edited collection is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, race studies and political activism, and for anyone with an interest in hip-hop.

Reviews

“It is always a pleasure to read not just poetry, but "strong poetry" where the unknown is made known and visible, where language sails into oceans of pleasure and solidarity, where disciplines meet to create a nation of hope in a time of hopelessness, and where Hip-Hop rubs shoulders with language, resistance, and dissent. The Sociolinguistics of Hip-Hop as Critical Conscience: Dissatisfaction and Dissent could not have been more urgent and more needed than in the present moment. WORD!“ (Professor Awad Ibrahim , University of Ottawa, Canada)

 “Exploring how dissatisfaction and dissent are exemplified in various forms of data, the volume shows how hip hop continues to be a politically and socially relevant form of expression around the world and a tool for contemporary youth to express their dissatisfaction with current political and social regimes.” (Associate Professor Cecelia A. Cutler

, City University of New York, USA)

“By focusing on the lyrical content of rap produced across the globe, the volume offers intriguing insights on many critical issues of interest to a broad range of readers, including migration, racism and postcolonialism. Authors use a variety of qualitative and quantitative approaches to show how dissatisfaction and dissent are constructed in rap in ways that cross national borders, languages and semiotic modes, thereby pushing forward the methodological apparatus of Hip Hop studies.” (Dr. Emilee Moore, University of Leeds, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Teaching and Learning, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

    Andrew S. Ross

  • Centre for Meta-Learning, Faculty of Systems Information Science Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan

    Damian J. Rivers

About the editors

Andrew S. Ross is a lecturer at Southern Cross University, Queensland, Australia. He has published in the area of emotions and motivation in language learning, and language and new media. 

 
Damian J. Rivers is an associate professor at Future University Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan. He has co-edited several books, including Resistance to the Known: Counter-Conduct in Language Education (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Sociolinguistics of Hip-hop as Critical Conscience

  • Book Subtitle: Dissatisfaction and Dissent

  • Editors: Andrew S. Ross, Damian J. Rivers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59244-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59243-5Published: 18 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86579-9Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59244-2Published: 19 December 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Sociology of Culture, Youth Culture, Slang and Jargon, Discourse Analysis

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