This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. The author suggests that practitioners understand hip hop as both a thing that can be appropriated and authenticated, made real, in the local and global context and as a way that enables them to transform their lives and futures in the rapidly globalising urban environments of Delhi. The dancers, artists, musicians and cultural theorists that feature in this book construct a multitude of voices in their narratives to formulate their ‘own’ transcultural voices within global hip hop. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and global culture.
Table of Content
Figures and Table
Transcription Conventions
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Terms
Prologue: Gender everywhere
Chapter 1. Complex Questions: Normalising Voice in Global Narratives
Chapter 2. Studying Transcultural Voices
Chapter 3. Doing Linguistic Ethnography in Delhi’s Hip-Hop Scene
Chapter 4. Othering Voices: Prosodic Normalising of the Authentic Cosmopolitan Self
Chapter 5. Translingual Voices: Remixed Language Ideologies
Chapter 6. Synchronising Voices: Travelling the Delhi to Bronx Wormhole
Chapter 7. Embodying Voices: Breakin Cyphers and the B-Boy Stance
Chapter 8. Overstandin Voices: Methodologies for Hip Hop
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Epilogue: Gender, again
Notes
References
About the author
Jaspal Naveel Singh is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the complex interconnections between culture and language, taking inspiration from classic western and eastern philosophy, southern theory, hip hop and Black diasporic traditions. Jaspal’s first monograph Transcultural Voices (2022) traces voice and narrative in the emerging hip hop community in Delhi, India. He has worked and lived in Hong Kong, Wales, India and Germany.
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