Transcultural Voices

Narrating Hip Hop Culture in Complex Delhi

AvJaspal Naveel Singh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. The author suggests that practitioners understand hip hop as both a thing that can be appropriated and authenticated, made real, in the local and global context and as a way that enables them to transform their lives and futures in the rapidly globalising urban environments of Delhi. The dancers, artists, musicians and cultural theorists that feature in this book construct a multitude of voices in their narratives to formulate their ‘own’ transcultural voices within global hip hop. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and global culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-29
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:456 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Encounters
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Multilingual Matters
ISBN:9781788928137

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Jaspal Naveel Singh is an Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics in the School of English, The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include global hip hop linguistics, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies.

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In Transcultural Voices, Singh offers a gripping account of how young male hip hop artists in Delhi, India orchestrate their voices in dialogue and narrative to transform and transgress their gendered and classed positionalities. Singh also powerfully demonstrates what a reflexive and sincere ethnographic approach that foregrounds collaboration can provide to sociolinguistics and the making of linguistic theory. This book will undoubtedly become an interdisciplinary classic and is a must-read for anyone interested in global hip hop, linguistic theory, and the changing contours of urban India.

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Figures and TableTranscription ConventionsAcknowledgementsGlossary of TermsPrologue: Gender everywhereChapter 1. Complex Questions: Normalising Voice in Global NarrativesChapter 2. Studying Transcultural VoicesChapter 3. Doing Linguistic Ethnography in Delhi’s Hip-Hop SceneChapter 4. Othering Voices: Prosodic Normalising of the Authentic Cosmopolitan SelfChapter 5. Translingual Voices: Remixed Language IdeologiesChapter 6. Synchronising Voices: Travelling the Delhi to Bronx WormholeChapter 7. Embodying Voices: Breakin Cyphers and the B-Boy StanceChapter 8. Overstandin Voices: Methodologies for Hip HopChapter 9. ConclusionEpilogue: Gender, againNotesReferences