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Roc the Mic Right

Author : H. Samy Alim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134243642
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Roc the Mic Right written by H. Samy Alim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Break and Flow

Author : Charlie D. Hankin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813949831
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Break and Flow written by Charlie D. Hankin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop’s US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class violence. Despite the geographic and linguistic borders that separate these artists, Charlie Hankin finds in their music and lyrics a common understanding of hip hop’s capacity to intervene in the public sphere and a shared poetics of neighborhood, nation, and transatlantic yearnings. Situated at the critical intersection of sound studies and Afro-diasporic poetics, Break and Flow draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration, as well as an archive of hundreds of songs by more than sixty hip hop artists. Hankin illuminates how new media is used to produce and distribute knowledge in the Global South, refining our understanding of poetry and popular music at the turn of the millennium.

The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

Author : Robert Terrill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515904
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X written by Robert Terrill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy for students of American history.

Sociolinguistics and Language Education

Author : Nancy H. Hornberger
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847692826
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Sociolinguistics and Language Education by : Nancy H. Hornberger

Download or read book Sociolinguistics and Language Education written by Nancy H. Hornberger and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2010 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, ideologies and power, across language education contexts ranging from the teaching of English as an international language to Indigenous language revitalization.

Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows

Author : Alastair Pennycook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134188757
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows by : Alastair Pennycook

Download or read book Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows written by Alastair Pennycook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English language is spreading across the world, and so too is hip-hop culture: both are being altered, developed, reinterpreted, reclaimed. This timely book explores the relationship between global Englishes (the spread and use of diverse forms of English within processes of globalization) and transcultural flows (the movements, changes and reuses of cultural forms in disparate contexts). This wide-ranging study focuses on the ways English is embedded in other linguistic contexts, including those of East Asia, Australia, West Africa and the Pacific Islands. Drawing on transgressive and performative theory, Pennycook looks at how global Englishes, transcultural flows and pedagogy are interconnected in ways that oblige us to rethink language and culture within the contemporary world. Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows is a valuable resource to applied linguists, sociolinguists, and students on cultural studies, English language studies, TEFL and TESOL courses.

American Studies Encounters the Middle East

Author : Alex Lubin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469628856
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book American Studies Encounters the Middle East written by Alex Lubin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the field of American studies, attention is shifting to the long history of U.S. engagement with the Middle East, especially in the aftermath of war in Iraq and in the context of recent Arab uprisings in protest against economic inequality, social discrimination, and political repression. Here, Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy curate a new collection of essays that focuses on the cultural politics of America's entanglement with the Middle East and North Africa, making a crucial intervention in the growing subfield of transnational American studies. Featuring a diverse list of contributors from the United States, the Arab world, and beyond, American Studies Encounters the Middle East analyzes Arab-American relations by looking at the War on Terror, pop culture, and the influence of the American hegemony in a time of revolution. Contributors include Christina Moreno Almeida, Ashley Dawson, Brian T. Edwards, Waleed Hazbun, Craig Jones, Osamah Khalil, Mounira Soliman, Helga Tawil-Souri, Judith E. Tucker, Adam John Waterman, and Rayya El Zein.

Word from the Mother

Author : Geneva Smitherman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134243707
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Word from the Mother written by Geneva Smitherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the hugely respected linguist, Geneva Smitherman, this book presents a definitive statement on African American English. Enriched by her evocative and inimitable prose style, the study presents an overview of past debates on the speech of African Americans, as well as providing a vision for the future. Featuring cartoons which demonstrate the relationship between language and race, as well as common perceptions of African American Language, she explores its contribution to mainstream American English and includes a summary of expressions as a suggested linguistic core of AAL. As global manifestations of Black Language increase, she argues that, through education, we must broaden our conception of AAL and its speakers, and further examine the implications of gender, age and class on AAL. Perhaps most of all we must appreciate the ‘artistic and linguistic genius’ of AAL, presented in this book through rap and Hip Hop lyrics and the explorations of rhyme and rhetoric in the Black speech community. Word from the Mother is an essential read for students of African American English, language, culture and sociolinguistics, as well as the general reader interested in the worldwide ‘crossover’ of black popular culture.

Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers

Author : Assistant Professor Critical Dance Studies Imani Kai Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190856696
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers by : Assistant Professor Critical Dance Studies Imani Kai Johnson

Download or read book Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers written by Assistant Professor Critical Dance Studies Imani Kai Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dance circle (called the cypher) is a common signifier of breaking culture, known more for its spectacular moves than as a ritual practice with foundations in Africanist aesthetics. Yet those foundations--evident in expressive qualities like call and response, the aural kinesthetic, the imperative to be original, and more--are essential to cyphering's enduring presence on the global stage. What can cyphers activate beyond the spectacle? What lessons do cyphers offer about moving through and navigating the social world? And what possibilities for the future do they animate? With an interdisciplinary reach and a riff on physics, author Imani Kai Johnson centers the voices of practitioners in a study of breaking events in cities across the US, Canada, and parts of Europe. Dark Matter in Breaking Cyphers: the Life of Africanist Aesthetics in Global Hip Hop draws on over a decade of research and provides a detailed look into the vitality of Africanist aesthetics and the epistemological possibilities of the ritual circle.

Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror

Author : Jenifer Chao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351779435
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror written by Jenifer Chao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It assesses the intersecting ways that popular culture has been deployed as oppositional practice in the post-9/11 context by documenting a collection of media texts, including a political hip hop album, a TV sitcom, a best-selling novel and studio photographs. Deviating from the conventional discursive and representative axis of mourning, nationalism and commemoration, this multimedia assemblage contests and rearticulates the political meanings, affects and visualizations of the war on terror and its global consequences. Drawing on the theoretical work of Jacques Rancière, the book also argues that these cultural artefacts are extending cultural resistance by shifting the scenes and methods of opposition to the realm of the sensible, or sensorial experiences. Never celebratory, the book encapsulates the potential of cultural practices against restricted post-9/11 regimes of visibility and audibility in the public sphere, but it also remains attentive to their blind spots, contradictions and constraints. This book offers a new angle to consider the events of 9/11, the war on terror and their continual effects, one that blurs established visions of patriotism and grief.

Literacy Tools in the Classroom

Author : Richard Beach
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807770647
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Literacy Tools in the Classroom written by Richard Beach and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ "literacy tools" across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video encourage critical inquiry in the 5-12 classroom. The book provides many examples and adaptable lessons from diverse classrooms and connects to an active Website where readers can join a growing professional community, share ideas, and get frequent updates: http://literacytooluses.pbworks.com

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality

Author : Vincent J. Cornell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118529405
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality written by Vincent J. Cornell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking and comprehensive collection on various facets of Islamic spirituality throughout history and in the modern world The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality is an authoritative reference work comprising twenty-eight scholarly essays that explore the expressive and performative dimensions of Islamic spirituality. Edited by two of its most prominent scholars, and bringing together a stellar cast of contributors, this wide-ranging volume covers religious practices, sacred texts, history and places, gender, music, poetry, the visual arts, and politics. Spirituality has had a long and important history in Islam, where a focus on spirituality is required of every believer. Each Muslim is asked to achieve a state of devotion through prayer, fasting, supplications, recitations, pilgrimage, and ascetic practices. The essays in this volume explain the role of spirituality in Islam—from its beginnings, through the development of its institutions, and into the present day. They also reflect important new research, and discuss contemporary debates and issues affecting Islamic spirituality such as the Internet, social justice, the role of women, ethics, and religious fundamentalism. Offering readers a thought-provoking way to engage with the topic, this comprehensive work includes: The spirituality of words and letters, including the Qur’an, prophetic traditions in Islam, and litanies, invocations, and devotional texts Devotional practices in Islam, including the spirituality of prayer, ascetic spirituality, Qur’an recitation, and spirituality of the Sufi path Spirituality in literature, including Arabic and Persian poetry, spirituality in the modern novel, and the art of translation Spirituality in the arts, including the visual arts, music, song, and film Islamic spirituality and post-modern practices, including the Internet, Islamic hip-hop, and Salafism From the personal to the political, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality offers a fresh and revitalized view of all aspects of spirituality in Islam. It is a must-have scholarly resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, instructors and scholars studying Islam, spirituality, and Asian and Middle Eastern history as well as general readers with an interest in the subject.

Articulate While Black

Author : H. Samy Alim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199812969
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Articulate While Black written by H. Samy Alim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use-and America's response to it.

"K for the Way"

Author : Todd Craig
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646424840
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book "K for the Way" written by Todd Craig and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “K for the Way” explores writing, rhetoric, and literacy from the perspective of the Hip Hop DJ. Todd Craig, a DJ himself, establishes and investigates the function of DJ rhetoric and literacy, illuminating the DJ as a fruitful example for (re)envisioning approaches to writing, research, and analysis in contemporary educational settings. Because it is widely recognized that the DJ was the catalyst for the creation of Hip Hop culture, this book begins a new conversation in which Hip Hop DJs introduce ideas about poetics and language formation through the modes, practices, and techniques they engage in on a daily basis. Using material from a larger qualitative research study that illustrates the Hip Hop DJ as a twenty-first-century new media reader, writer, and literary critic, Craig blends interviews from prominent and influential DJs in the Hip Hop community with narrative and interdisciplinary scholarship from writing studies, Hip Hop studies, African American studies, urban education, and ethnomusicology. The voices of DJs sit front and center, presenting a revolutionary conversation about writing and communication in the twenty-first century. Weaving Craig’s life experiences with important discussions of racial literacies, “K for the Way” is a layered and utterly singular exploration of culture, identity, and literacy in America.

Hip Hop's Amnesia

Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739174932
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Hip Hop's Amnesia written by Reiland Rabaka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the spirituals, classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, and bebop? What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women’s Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Hipster Movement, and Black Muslim Movement? In Hip Hop’s Amnesia award-winning author, spoken-word artist, and multi-instrumentalist Reiland Rabaka answers these questions by rescuing and reclaiming the often-overlooked early twentieth century origins and evolution of rap music and hip hop culture.

The Languages of Global Hip Hop

Author : Marina Terkourafi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826431607
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Global Hip Hop written by Marina Terkourafi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.

Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation

Author : Karen Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351391984
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation written by Karen Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume problematizes the concept and practice of translation in an interconnected world in which English, despite its hegemonic status, can no longer be considered a coherent unified entity but rather a mobile resource subject to various kinds of hybridization. Drawing upon recent work in the domains of translation studies, literary studies and (socio-)linguistics, it explores the centrality of translation as both a trope for the analysis of contemporary transcultural dynamics and as a concrete communication practice in the globalized world. The chapters range across many geographic realities and genres (including fiction, memoir, animated film and hip-hop), and deal with subjects as varied as self-translation, translational ethics and language change. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how meanings are generated and relayed in a context of super-diversity, in which traditional understandings of language and translation can no longer be sustained.

Always Different, Always the Same

Author : Eoin Devereux
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538165368
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Always Different, Always the Same written by Eoin Devereux and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall, led by Mark E. Smith, were one of the most intriguing, influential, and prolific post-punk groups in British popular culture. Always Different, Always the Same: Critical Essays on The Fall is a thorough and critical account of the group, engaging with the often complex and challenging creative work. In this groundbreaking text, volume editors Eoin Devereux and Martin J. Power bring together contributions from a wide variety of disciplinary homes, including ethnomusicology, sociology, literary theory, linguistics, journalism, cultural studies, and film and media studies. Contributors Kieran Cashell, Brian Clancy, Matt Davies, Eoin Devereux, Samuel Flannagan, John Fleming, Gavin Friday, Mike Glennon, K. A. Laity, Ben Lawley, John McFarland, David Meagher, Michael Mary Murphy, Martin Myers, Martin J. Power, Suzanne Smith, Elaine Vaughan, Paul Wilson.