Hiphop literacies.

9780415329279

Hiphop literacies.

Richardson, Elaine.

Routledge

2006

142 pages

$35.95

Paperback

Literacies

PE3102

In applying the tools of literacy studies to the musical genre of hip-hop (rap), Richardson (English and applied linguistics, Pennsylvania State U.) has two primary aims. The first is to locate hip-hop discourse within the historical trajectory of Black discourse, choosing commercial forms of the genre for analysis precisely because it is a harder case to prove than more overtly socially conscious forms. Her second aim is to examine hip-hop as it is encountered, developed, or appropriated in secondary oral contexts. She moves from locating the raps of the group OutKast within the wider scheme of Afro-diasporic expressive practices, to analyzing cultural-linguistic similarities in hip-hop and Jamaican dancehall music, to language ideologies found in the prosecution of Lil' Kim for perjury and in her defense, to the sociolinguistic globalization of African American language in online German hip-hop.

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