Global Pop, Local Language
Language: English
Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2003
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- Title
- Global Pop, Local Language
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- University Press of Mississippi
- Publication year
- 2003
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- Paperback
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- English
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- 1578065364
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- 9781578065363
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With contributions by Maria Elena Cepeda, Cece Cutler, John Fenn, Morgan Gerard, Paul D. Greene, David R. Henderson, Dave Laing, Edward Larkey, Anthony McCann, Tony Mitchell, Lillis Ó Laoire, Alex Perullo, Jack Sidnell, Maria Paula Survilla, C. K. Szego, Sue Tuohy, and Jeremy Wallach
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?
Global Pop, Local Language 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 US; 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.
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About the Author
Michael Thomas Carroll is professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University. He is author of Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory (2000) and coeditor (with Eddie Tafoya) of Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture (2000).
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