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Language and music are connected in many ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to express distinct and complex identities, attitudes, ideologies, social roles and political views. Spaces characterized by migration, contact, multilingualism, and colonial inequalities, are particularly interesting for the study of the intersections between language and music.This volume is the first book-length account of contact languages and music. It offers a stimulating collection of contributions on different territories, multiple musical genres and topics, and various methodological approaches. The chapters address myriad topics such as nationality, ethnicity, identity, gender, migration and diaspora.
Andrea Hollington is a postdoc researcher at the University of Mainz, Germany.Joseph T. Farquharson is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at The University of the West Indies, Mona, and Coordinator of the Jamaican Language Unit.Byron M. Jones Jr. is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
1. IntroductionPart 1 Language, Music and Identity2. Discoursing the State of a Caribbean Nation3. “Dennery Segment ka mennen”: Exploring the Dominance of Creole Languages in St Lucian Popular Music4. Singing in Creole or Portuguese?: Santomean Musical Manifestations5. Wi Ful a Patan: A Quantitative Approach to Language Use in Jamaican Popular Music6. Styling through Rhyming: Gender and Vowel Variation in Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics7. Language Use in Peter Ram’s Soca Performances8. Singing the King’s Creole: The (Ethno)Linguistic Repertoire of Clifton ChenierPart 2 Translocal Perspectives9. Rap Kriolu Revisited: From the Transnational Diaspora to Cape Verde and Back10. Authentic Crossing?: Jamaican Creole in African Dancehall11. Jamaican in Transatlantic Contact Spaces: Linguistic Practices in African Reggae, Dancehall and Other Popular Musics12. Jamaric Reggae: Jamaican Speech Forms in Contemporary Ethiopian Reggae Music13. Caribbean Identity in Pop Music: Rihanna’s and Nicki Minaj’s Multivocal Pop PersonasList of ContributorsIndex