Title: Hiphop literacies /
Authors: Richardson, Elaine B., 1960-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2006
Subjects: African Americans Languages; English language United States Rhetoric; English language Social aspects United States; Hip-hop United States; Black English United States.; Americanisms.
Abstract: "Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyzes 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." "In locating rap and Hiphop discourse within a trajectory of Black discourses, Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts such as rap music, song lyrics, electronic and digital media, oral performances and cinema."
Contents: Black/folk/discoursez: OutKast and "the whole world" -- Crosscultural vibrations: the shared language of contestation of Jamaican dancehallas and American hiphoppas -- Young women and critical hiphop literacies: their readings of the world -- Ride or Die B, Jezebel, Lil' Kim or Kimberly Jones and African American women's language and literacy practices: the nake truf -- "Yo mein rap is phat wie deine Mama": African American language in online German hiphop, or identifying the global in global hiphop -- Hiphop and video games.