Hiphop Literacies

'Puts Hiphop on the map of literacy studies.' - Jannis Androutsopoulos, Mannheim, Germany"Elaine Richardson's Hiphop Literacies, following on the heels of her African American Literacies, is a provocative examination of literacy practices in the context of Hiphop (as the word is written in the book). Here, literacy is defined under the broader rubric of New Literacy Studies (NLS), a paradigm sensitive to the gray areas demarcating 'orality' and 'literacy,' emphasizing instead a liberal and multivalent understanding encompassing alternative modalities (visual, sonic, and their multi-medial synergisms) and seeking to situate literacy within its social settings and cultural practices." -- Tom Greenland, Journal of Foldlore Research, January 2008

• 1. The What, How, Where and Who of Hip Hop: An Introduction  2. Cross-cultural Vibrations: A Study of Lexical Borrowing Between Jamaican Dancehall and American Hip Hop artists  3. My Bondage, My Freedom, My 'nigga': Performance and Authenticity in Rap/Hip Hop Discourse  4. The Envy of the Women and the Rule of the Men: African American Women's Rap Discourse  5. Hip Hop Rules on the Wild Wild Web  6. Learning About Literacies: High School and College Students Respond