Global Linguistic Flows by Awad Ibrahim; H. Samy Alim; Alastair PennycookISBN: 0805862854
Publication Date: 2008-09-04
Excerpt: This volume addressed a constellation of concerns: Hip Hop Cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. . . .Scholars are turning to the study of global Hip Hop cultures as a means toward both illuminating our understanding this abstract, discursive, popular cultural zone and delving deeper into the workings of complex processes such as transnationalism, cultural flow, syncretism, indigenization, hybridity, (im)migration, and Diaspora, to name a few of the concepts that permeate this volume.