ISBN: 0415329280 9780415329286

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General

Page count: 142

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.<br>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.<br>Hiphop Literacies brings together issues and concepts that are explored in the disciplines of folklore, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, discourse studies and New Literacies Studies.