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

Other author Berger, Harris M., 1966- editor.
Other author Carroll, Michael Thomas, 1954- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2003.
Descriptionxxvi, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Popular music--History and criticism.
Music and language.
Sociolinguistics.
Music and globalization.

Contents 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.
Abstract Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these? This book examines how performers and audiences from a wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in popular music. Related issues confront performers of Latin music in the U.S., drum and bass MCs in Toronto, and rappers, rockers, and traditional folk singers from England and Ireland to France, Germany, Belarus, Nepal, China, New Zealand, Hawaii, and beyond. For pop musicians, this issue brings up a number of complex questions. Which languages or dialects will best express my ideas? Which will get me a record contract or a bigger audience? What does it mean to sing or listen to music in a colonial language? A foreign language? A regional dialect? A "native" language? Examining popular music from a range of world cultures, the authors explore these questions and use them to address a number of broader issues, including the globalization of the music industry, the problem of authenticity in popular culture, the politics of identity, multiculturalism, and the emergence of English as a dominant world language. The chapters are written in a highly accessible style by scholars from a variety of fields, including ethnomusicology, popular music studies, anthropology, culture studies, literary studies, folklore, and linguistics.
General noteIn part, originally published in Global popular music : the politics and aesthetics of language choice, a special issue of Popular music and society (v. 24.3, fall 2000).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2002152727
ISBN1578065356 (alk. paper)
ISBN1578065364 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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