H. Samy Alim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.Awad Ibrahim is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada.Alastair Pennycook is Professor of Language Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technololgy, Sydney, Australia.

• @contents: Selected ContentsINTRO"Straight Outta Compton, Straight aus München: Global Linguistic Flows, Identities, and the Politics of Language in a Global Hip Hop Nation" – H. Samy AlimDISC ONEStyling locally, styling globally:The Globalization of Language and Culture in a Global Hip Hop NationTRACK ONE "Hip-Hop as Dusty Foot Philosophy: Engaging Locality" – Alastair Pennycook and Tony MitchellTRACK TWO "Language and the Three Spheres of Hip-Hop" – Jannis AndroutsopoulosTRACK THREE "Conversational Sampling, Race Trafficking, and the Invocation of the "gueto" in Brazilian Hip-Hop" – Jennifer Roth-GordonTRACK FOUR" ‘You shouldn't be rappin, you should be skateboardin the X-games’: The Co-construction of Whiteness in an MC Battle" – Cecelia CutlerTRACK FIVE"From Da Bomb to Bomba: Global Hip Hop Nation Language in Tanzania" – Christina HigginsTRACK SIX"‘So I choose to do am Naija style’: Hip-Hop, Language and Postcolonial Identities" – T. OmoniyiDISC TWOThe Power of the Word:Hip Hop Poetics, Pedagogies, and the Politics of Language in Global ContextsTRACK SEVEN "‘Still reppin por mi gente’: The Transformative Power of Language Mixing in Quebec Hip-Hop" – Mela SarkarTRACK EIGHT"‘Respect for da chopstick Hip Hop’: The politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy of Cantonese Verbal Art in Hong Kong" – Angel LinTRACK NINE "Rhyme and the Reinterpretation of Hip Hop in Japan" – Natsuko Tsujimura and Stuart Davis TRACK TEN "‘That's all concept; it’s nothing real’: Reality and Lyrical Meaning in Rap" – Michael NewmanTRACK ELEVEN"Creating ‘an empire within an empire’: Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and the Role of Sociolinguistics" – H. Samy AlimTRACK TWELVE"Takin Hip-Hop to a Whole Nother Level: Métissage, Affect and Pedagogy in a Global Hip-Hop Nation" – Awad IbrahimHIP-HOP HEADZ aka LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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