Global Pop Local Language

Author : Harris M. Berger
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578065363
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Pop, Local Language written by Harris M. Berger and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Studies -- Ethnomusicology Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these? Global Pop, Local Language examines how performers and audiences from a wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in popular music. Related issues confront performers of Latin music in the U.S., drum and bass MCs in Toronto, and rappers, rockers, and traditional folk singers from England and Ireland to France, Germany, Belarus, Nepal, China, New Zealand, Hawaii, and beyond. For pop musicians, this issue brings up a number of complex questions. Which languages or dialects will best express my ideas? Which will get me a record contract or a bigger audience? What does it mean to sing or listen to music in a colonial language? A foreign language? A regional dialect? A "native" language? Examining popular music from a range of world cultures, the authors explore these questions and use them to address a number of broader issues, including the globalization of the music industry, the problem of authenticity in popular culture, the politics of identity, multiculturalism, and the emergence of English as a dominant world language. The chapters are written in a highly accessible style by scholars from a variety of fields, including ethnomusicology, popular music studies, anthropology, culture studies, literary studies, folklore, and linguistics. Harris M. Berger is associate professor of music at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Metal, Rock and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience (1999). Michael Thomas Carroll is professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University. He is the author of Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory (2000) and co-editor, with Eddie Tafoya, of Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture (2000).

Author : Christina Higgins
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847696937
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as a Local Language written by Christina Higgins and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When analyzed in multilingual contexts, English is often treated as an entity that is separable from its linguistic environment. It is often the case, however, that multilinguals use English in hybrid and transcultural ways. This book explores how multilingual East Africans make use of English as a local resource in their everyday practices by examining a range of domains, including workplace conversation, beauty pageants, hip hop and advertising. Drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of multivocality, the author uses discourse analysis and ethnographic approaches to demonstrate the range of linguistic and cultural hybridity found across these domains, and to consider the constraints on hybridity in each context. By focusing on the cultural and linguistic bricolage in which English is often found, the book illustrates how multilinguals respond to the tension between local identification and dominant conceptualizations of English as a language for global communication.

Author : Marina Terkourafi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826431607
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( 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.

Author : Sebnem Susam-Sarajeva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113496756X
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation and Music written by Sebnem Susam-Sarajeva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular and multimodal forms of cultural products are becoming increasingly visible within translation studies research. Interest in translation and music, however, has so far been relatively limited, mainly because translation of musical material has been considered somewhat outside the limits of translation studies, as traditionally conceived. Difficulties associated with issues such as the 'musicality' of lyrics, the fuzzy boundaries between translation, adaptation and rewriting, and the pervasiveness of covert or unacknowledged translations of musical elements in a variety of settings have generally limited the research in this area to overt and canonized translations such as those done for the opera. Yet the intersection of translation and music can be a fascinating field to explore, and one which can enrich our understanding of what translation is and how it relates to other forms of expression. This special issue is an attempt to open up the field of translation and music to a wider audience within translation studies, and to an extent, within musicology and cultural studies. The volume includes contributions from a wide range of musical genres and languages: from those that investigate translation and code-switching in North African rap and rai, and the intertextual and intersemiotic translations revolving around Mahler's lieder in Chinese, to the appropriation and after-life of Kurdish folk songs in Turkish, and the emergence of rock'n roll in Russian. Other papers examine the reception of Anglo-American stage musicals and musical films in Italy and Spain, the concept of 'singability' with examples from Scandinavian languages, and the French dubbing of musical episodes of TV series. The volume also offers an annotated bibliography on opera translation and a general bibliography on translation and music.

Author : Mary Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190611049
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language written by Mary Hayes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -First Edition published in Paperback 2001.-

Author : Alastair Pennycook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113693278X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language as a Local Practice written by Alastair Pennycook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity. By taking each of these three elements – language, locality and practice – and exploring how they relate to each other, Language as a Local Practice opens up new ways of thinking about language. It questions assumptions about languages as systems or as countable entities, and suggests instead that language emerges from the activities it performs. To look at language as a practice is to view language as an activity rather than a structure, as something we do rather than a system we draw on, as a material part of social and cultural life rather than an abstract entity. Language as a Local Practice draws on a variety of contexts of language use, from bank machines to postcards, Indian newspaper articles to fish-naming in the Philippines, urban graffiti to mission statements, suggesting that rather than thinking in terms of language use in context, we need to consider how language, space and place are related, how language creates the contexts where it is used, how languages are the products of socially located activities and how they are part of the action. Language as a Local Practice will be of interest to students on advanced undergraduate and post graduate courses in Applied Linguistics, Language Education, TESOL, Literacy and Cultural Studies.

Author : H. Samy Alim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135592985
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Linguistic Flows written by H. Samy Alim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world – spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union – to explore Hip Hop cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. Focusing closely on language, these scholars of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies, and critical pedagogies offer linguistic insights to the growing scholarship on Hip Hop Culture, while reorienting their respective fields by paying closer attention to processes of globalization and localization. The book engages complex processes such as transnationalism, (im)migration, cultural flow, and diaspora in an effort to expand current theoretical approaches to language choice and agency, speech style and stylization, codeswitching and language mixing, crossing and sociolinguistic variation, and language use and globalization. Moving throughout the Global Hip Hop Nation, through scenes as diverse as Hong Kong’s urban center, Germany’s Mannheim inner-city district of Weststadt, the Brazilian favelas, the streets of Lagos and Dar es Salaam, and the hoods of the San Francisco Bay Area, this global intellectual cipha breaks new ground in the ethnographic study of language and popular culture.

Author : Sender Dovchin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319619551
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity written by Sender Dovchin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the creative and innovative nature of their transglossic practices. Situated on the Asian periphery, these young adults roam widely in their use of popular culture, media voices and linguistic resources. This innovative and topical book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural studies and linguistic anthropology.

Author : Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313357595
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hip Hop around the World [2 volumes] written by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set covers all aspects of international hip hop as expressed through music, art, fashion, dance, and political activity. Hip hop music has gone from being a marginalized genre in the late 1980s to the predominant style of music in America, the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries around the world. Hip Hop around the World includes more than 450 entries on global hip hop culture as it includes music, art, fashion, dance, social and cultural movements, organizations, and styles of hip hop. Virtually every country is represented in the text. Most of the entries focus on music styles and notable musicians and are unique in that they discuss the sound of various hip hop styles and musical artists' lyrical content, vocal delivery, vocal ranges, and more. Many additional entries deal with dance styles, such as breakdancing or b-boying/b-girling, popping/locking, clowning, and krumping, and cultural movements, such as black nationalism, Nation of Islam, Five Percent Nation, and Universal Zulu Nation. Country entries take into account politics, history, language, authenticity, and personal and community identification. Special care is taken to draw relationships between people and entities such as mentor-apprentice, producer-musician, and more.

Author : Nancy H. Hornberger
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847692826
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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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.