Roc the Mic Right
eBook - ePub

Roc the Mic Right

The Language of Hip Hop Culture

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Roc the Mic Right

The Language of Hip Hop Culture

About this book

Complementing a burgeoning area of interest and academic study, Roc the Mic Right explores the central role of language within the Hip Hop Nation (HHN). With its status convincingly argued as the best means by which to read Hip Hop culture, H. Samy Alim then focuses on discursive practices, such as narrative sequencing and ciphers, or lyrical circles of rhymers. Often a marginalized phenomenon, the complexity and creativity of Hip Hop lyrical production is emphasised, whilst Alim works towards the creation of a schema by which to understand its aesthetic.

Using his own ethnographic research, Alim shows how Hip Hop language could be used in an educational context and presents a new approach to the study of the language and culture of the Hip Hop Nation: 'Hiphopography'. The final section of the book, which includes real conversational narratives from Hip Hop artists such as The Wu-Tang Clan and Chuck D, focuses on direct engagement with the language.

A highly accessible and lively work on the most studied and read about language variety in the United States, this book will appeal not only to language and linguistics researchers and students, but holds a genuine appeal to anyone interested in Hip Hop or Black African Language.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Foreword
  5. Shout outs
  6. Chapter 1: ā€˜The streetz iz a muthaā€™: The street and the formation of a Hip Hop Linguistics (HHLx)
  7. Chapter 2: Verbal Mujahidin in the Transglobal Hip Hop Umma: Islam, discursive struggle, and the weapons of mass culture
  8. Chapter 3: ā€œTalkin Black in this White Manā€™s Worldā€: Linguistic supremacy, linguistic equanimity, and the politics of language
  9. Chapter 4: ā€œBring it to the cypherā€: Hip Hop Nation Language
  10. Chapter 5: Spittin the Code of the Streets: The strategic construction of a street-conscious identity
  11. Chapter 6: ā€œEvery syllable of mine is an umbilical cord through timeā€: Toward an analytical schema of Hip Hop poetics
  12. Chapter 7: ā€œIā€™m Pharoahe when Iā€™m on stage; Iā€™m Troy when Iā€™m home in Queensā€: An interview with Pharoahe Monch
  13. References