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Pop Song English as a supralocal norm

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2 Published in 2023 at "Language in Society"

DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000131

Abstract: An American-influenced singing accent, referred to here as Pop Song English (PSE), is common in popular music throughout (and beyond) the Anglophone world. This article presents an analysis of the sung pronunciation of two variables… read more here.

Keywords: pop song; hip hop; supralocal norm; pop ... See more keywords

Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time

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1 Published in 2018 at "Popular Music and Society"

DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2018.1417109

Abstract: throughout the chapter where the reader can draw parallels between dystopian society and the ill-equipped, unfunded neighborhoods prevalent in the lyrics of hip-hop songs and hip-hop lives. When the author mentions the city of Atlantis,… read more here.

Keywords: hip; hip hop; artist; cover ... See more keywords

Urban Myths and Rural Legends: An Alternate Take on the Regionalism of Hip Hop

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1 Published in 2020 at "Popular Music and Society"

DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2020.1730651

Abstract: ABSTRACT The practices of hip-hop evolved during the mid-1970s in New York City’s dilapidated neighborhoods and are almost exclusively represented through the fabric of inner-city life. However, over the past forty years hip-hop has produced… read more here.

Keywords: hip; regional rural; hip hop; urban myths ... See more keywords

Sexism and Power Play in the Nigerian Contemporary Hip Hop Culture: The Music of Wizkid

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1 Published in 2020 at "Contemporary Music Review"

DOI: 10.1080/07494467.2020.1753479

Abstract: The proliferation of hip hop culture in Nigeria today is a trend which occurs as a result of adoption, adaptation and popularization of American hip hop music. Since its inception in the 1990s to date,… read more here.

Keywords: hip hop; music; hop culture;

Hip hop as decoration: theorizing the hybridity of hip hop and yoga in Perth, Western Australia

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1 Published in 2020 at "Continuum"

DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1782836

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article draws on Wallerstein’s notion of world-systems to contribute to the theorization of cultural hybrids. Through an analysis of hip hop and yoga, as well as their arrangement as a hip hop yoga… read more here.

Keywords: hip hop; hop yoga; hop; perth western ... See more keywords

Putting the fragments (back) together: towards a theorisation of Jewish sampling

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2 Published in 2017 at "Social Identities"

DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2016.1186536

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article argues that there is an elective affinity between the Jewish worldview and sampling. Sampling has a history much longer than its use in hip hop. Here, though, I am concerned with Jewish… read more here.

Keywords: hip hop; towards theorisation; putting fragments; back together ... See more keywords

Experiments in sound: generating sonic landscapes in online spaces

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1 Published in 2019 at "Journal of African Cultural Studies"

DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2019.1615419

Abstract: ABSTRACT The democratic possibilities of a new public sphere created by communication technologies have been widely celebrated. Online technologies have created new spaces for individuals to facilitate encounters with and understanding of popular music. Across… read more here.

Keywords: hip hop; online space; online spaces;

Young People, Hip-Hop, and the Making of a “Grammar for Unpolitics” in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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1 Published in 2019 at "Geopolitics"

DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2019.1608436

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article investigates youth political subjectivity and subject formation in the context of postsocialist transition and projects of post-conflict peace-building in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following a youth subculture, it explores how nationalist visions… read more here.

Keywords: article; grammar unpolitics; hip hop; bosnia herzegovina ... See more keywords

Real talk: Using song lyrics to teach perception and the Johari Window

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1 Published in 2019 at "Communication Teacher"

DOI: 10.1080/17404622.2019.1624800

Abstract: ABSTRACT Rap music is an essential component of hip-hop culture and hip-hop pedagogy. The activity uses music, in particular hip-hop music, as a means of teaching the Johari Window. Students were required to complete the… read more here.

Keywords: communication; hip hop; johari window; real talk ... See more keywords

Forging traditions: continuity and change in the mid 2000s Australian Hip-Hop scene

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1 Published in 2019 at "Ethnomusicology Forum"

DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2019.1691929

Abstract: ABSTRACT In this paper, I explore how Hip-Hop enthusiasts in the Adelaide and Melbourne scenes related their practices to a romanticised ‘American’ or ‘South Bronx’ origin point. I draw on ethnographic research conducted from 2006… read more here.

Keywords: forging traditions; hip; australian hip; hip hop ... See more keywords

Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World

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1 Published in 2017 at "Material Religion"

DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2017.1377460

Abstract: (44) to hip-hop (many progenitors of which were inspired by the consciousness-raising part of black Islam), to Muslim Cool (a black-identified way of being Muslim that requires consciousness of one’s self and social location in… read more here.

Keywords: muslim cool; hip hop; reviving roman; book ... See more keywords