Overview
- 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)
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Reviews
“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
About the editors
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