Transcultural Voices

Narrating Hip Hop Culture in Complex Delhi
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78892-813-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Jaspal Naveel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Table

Transcription Conventions

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Terms

Prologue: Gender everywhere

Chapter 1. Complex Questions: Normalising Voice in Global Narratives

Chapter 2. Studying Transcultural Voices

Chapter 3. Doing Linguistic Ethnography in Delhi’s Hip-Hop Scene

Chapter 4. Othering Voices: Prosodic Normalising of the Authentic Cosmopolitan Self

Chapter 5. Translingual Voices: Remixed Language Ideologies

Chapter 6. Synchronising Voices: Travelling the Delhi to Bronx Wormhole

Chapter 7. Embodying Voices: Breakin Cyphers and the B-Boy Stance

Chapter 8. Overstandin Voices: Methodologies for Hip Hop

Chapter 9. Conclusion

Epilogue: Gender, again

Notes

References

Über Autor(innen)

Singh, Jaspal Naveel
Jaspal Naveel Singh is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the complex interconnections between culture and language, taking inspiration from classic western and eastern philosophy, southern theory, hip hop and Black diasporic traditions. Jaspal’s first monograph Transcultural Voices (2022) traces voice and narrative in the emerging hip hop community in Delhi, India. He has worked and lived in Hong Kong, Wales, India and Germany.

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.