Encounters #: Transcultural Voices

Narrating Hip Hop Culture in Complex Delhi

Encounters #: Transcultural Voices
Jaspal Naveel Singh
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h210 x 148mm - 328pg
31 Oct 2021 UK
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9781800413818
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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.

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Transcultural Voices: Narrating Hip Hop Culture in Complex Delhi

Transcultural Voices brings a much-needed progressive approach to the sociolinguistics of hip hop. Singh pushes the boundaries of the global study and analysis of English, genre, gender, and hip hop culture, illuminating the transformative power of voice in hip hop narratives. A beautiful linguistic ethnography of hip hop in Delhi. Brilliant! * Quentin Williams, University of the Western Cape, South Africa * In Transcultural Voices, Singh offers a gripping account of how young male hip hop artists in Delhi, India orchestrate their voices in dialogue and narrative to transform and transgress their gendered and classed positionalities. Singh also powerfully demonstrates what a reflexive and sincere ethnographic approach that foregrounds collaboration can provide to sociolinguistics and the making of linguistic theory. This book will undoubtedly become an interdisciplinary classic and is a must-read for anyone interested in global hip hop, linguistic theory, and the changing contours of urban India. * Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK * Transcultural Voices marks the entry of a refreshing new scholar in sociolinguistics. Jaspal Singh takes us on an unforgettable journey through Delhi' s urban hip hop scene, revealing an ethnographic world with a descriptive flare that is both honest and provocative. Singh' s highly approachable book unravels how young male hip hop practitioners, marginalized in the city as migrants from elsewhere, transform the cosmopolitan magic of their fine art into a powerfully local and compelling way of life. * Kira Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, USA *
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.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781800413818
Published: 31 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine: 18mm
Pages: 328

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