Dallas Public Library

Global pop, local language, edited by Harris M. Berger and Michael Thomas Carroll

eng

Includes bibliographical references

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

no index present

non fiction

Global pop, local language

bibliography

edited by Harris M. Berger and Michael Thomas Carroll

Introduction : The politics and aesthetics of language choice and dialect in popular music / Harris M. Berger -- Language choice, popular music, and globalization. Doin' damage in my native language : the use of "resistance vernaculars" in hip hop in France, Italy, and Aotearoa/New Zealand / Tony Mitchell. Language ideologies, choices, and practices in eastern African hip hop / Alex Perullo and John Fenn. "Goodbye my blind majesty" : music, language, and politics in the Indonesian underground / Jeremy Wallach. At the crossroads of languages, musics, and emotions in Kathmandu / Paul D. Greene and David R. Henderson -- Nation, region, and ethnicity in the politics of music and language. Mucho loco for Ricky Martin, or, The politics of chronology, crossover, and language within the Latin(o) music "boom" / María Elena Cepeda. Just for fun? : language choice in German popular music / Edward Larkey. The choices and contexts of local distinction : regional attachments and dialect in Chinese music / Sue Tuohy. "Ordinary words" : sound, symbolism, and meaning in Belarusan-language rock music / Maria Paula Survilla. Cockney rock / Dave Laing. "Raising one higher than the other" : the hierarchy of tradition in representations of Gaelic- and English-language song in Ireland / Anthony McCann and Lillis Ó Laoire -- Music and words : language choice and dialect in song and performance. "Trying to break it down" : MCs' talk and social setting in drum & bass performance / Morgan Gerard and Jack Sidnell. Singing Hawaiian and the aesthetics of (in)comprehensibility / C.K. Szego. "Chanter en yaourt" : pop music and language choice in France / Cece Cutler