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Remix Multilingualism
Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices
Remix Multilingualism
Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices
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Description
"Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual participants in the local hip hop culture of Cape Town. In globalised societies today previously marginalized speakers are carving out new and innovating spaces to put on display their voices and identities through the creative use of multilingualism.
This book contributes to the development of new conceptual insights and theoretical developments on multilingualism in the global South by applying the notions of stylization, performance, performativity, entextualisation and enregisterment. This takes place through interviews, performance analysis and interactional analysis, showing how young multilingual speakers stage different personae, styles, registers and language varieties.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Remixing Multilingualism in a Globalized World
2. Designing Hip Hop Sociolinguistics
3. The Hip Hop Sociolinguist and Multi-sited Ethnography: Collecting Multilingual Remix Data
4. Multilingual Emcees up in the Club and Other Spaces
5. Multilingual Braggadocio and Intertextuality
6. Multilingual Freestyle Rap and Performing Locality
7. Staging Masculinity: Emceeing Toughness, Toughing up the Emcee
8. Precarious Femininity: The Performativity of Sexualized Bodies
9. Conclusion: On the Future Study of Marginalized Voices
Discography
Bibliography
Index
Product details

Published | 21 Sep 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 264 |
ISBN | 9781472591135 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Series | Advances in Sociolinguistics |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Williams' book is a state-of-the-art document of the current scholarly interest in the sociolinguistics of global hip hop ... An important case study for students of language, culture and society.
Journal of Sociolinguistics
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Quentin Williams both broadens and connects two major areas of research: the sociolinguistics of multilingualism and hip hop studies ... Remix Multilingualism provides deep insights into the local Cape hip hop scene while demonstrating its important relationship with global hip hop.
Language in Society
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Highly recommended.
Sociolinguistics Studies
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Hip Hop messes up with language, it takes it to a whole nother level, where the poetic is mixed with the political, where the global and the local meet in a space of métissage, and where the familiar is so worked-on that it becomes unfamiliar. Grounded in the multilingual, the ethnographic and the marginalized, Remix Multilingualism shows us the power of (Global) Hip Hop (Language) and why we need to have our ears to the ground and hear it. WORD!
Awad Ibrahim, Full Professor of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Remix Multilingualism is the book we've been waiting for ever since 1994 when the 'new' South Africa enshrined its eleven official languages policy in the Constitution. Williams' clear, scholarly vision and rigorous, ethnographic labor in the Hip Hop vineyards of Kuilsriver have yielded a master text which demonstrates the rich multilingualism of marginalized voices in South Africa (and by extension, elsewhere in the Global South). It is a major contribution to the fields of Hip Hop studies and Multilingualism and a must-read for scholars and teachers alike.
Geneva Smitherman, University Distinguished Professor Emerita, Michigan State University, USA
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An exciting and rich multi-sited linguistic ethnography of marginality in the South and its multilingual (re)mediation. Quentin Williams has (re)mixed a tantalizing recipe for understanding how lives and selves may be materialized in and through Linguistic Citizenship.
Christopher Stroud, Senior Professor of Linguistics and Director for the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

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