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Hiphop Literacies

By Elaine Richardson

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About the Book

Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture.

Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts such as rap music, song lyrics, electronic and digital media, oral performances and cinema and brings together issues and concepts that are explored in the disciplines of folklore, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, discourse studies and New Literacies Studies.

Table of Contents

1. The What, How, Where and Who of Hip Hop: An Introduction 2. Cross-cultural Vibrations: A Study of Lexical Borrowing Between Jamaican Dancehall and American Hip Hop artists 3. My Bondage, My Freedom, My 'nigga': Performance and Authenticity in Rap/Hip Hop Discourse 4. The Envy of the Women and the Rule of the Men: African American Women's Rap Discourse 5. Hip Hop Rules on the Wild Wild Web 6. Learning About Literacies: High School and College Students Respond