Transcultural voices : narrating hip hop culture in complex Delhi /

Transcultural voices : narrating hip hop culture in complex Delhi /

"This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and glob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singh, Jaspal Naveel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2022]
Series:Encounters (Bristol, England) ; 22.
Subjects:
Hip-hop dance > Social aspects > India > Delhi.
Break dancers > India > Delhi.
Rap musicians > India > Delhi.
Rap (Music) > India > Delhi > History and criticism.
Anthropological linguistics > India > Delhi.
Break dancers.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Complex questions : Normalising voice in narratives
  • Studying transcultural voices
  • Doing ethnography in Delhi's hip hop scene
  • Othering voices : Prosodic normalising of the authentic cosmopolitan self
  • Translingual voices : Remixed language ideologies
  • Synchronising voices : Travelling the Delhi to Bronx wormhole
  • Embodying voices : Breakin cyphers and the b-boy stance
  • Overstandin voices : Methodologies for hip hop
  • Conclusion.

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