Hybrid Identities in Quebec Hip-Hop: Language, Territory, and Ethnicity in the Mix

Sarkar, Mela; Allen, Dawn

doi:10.1080/15348450701341253

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“…Conceptually, our results are convergent with recent studies that have attempted to conceptualize youth identities in a new way. These studies speak in particular about unresolved identities (Ngo 2010), hybrid identities (Sarkar and Allen 2007), or flexible identities (Carter 2010). Other studies use the concept of borders in speaking about blurring (Alba 2009) or negotiating boundaries (Massey and Sanchez 2010).…”

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Intercultural immigrant youth identities in contexts of family, friends, and school

Bauer

Loomis

Akkari

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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Much of the research on cultural identity development does not capture experiences of individuals with parents from two or more cultural backgrounds or those living in multicultural contexts. Our study explores how immigrant youth in a multicultural city view and use identities to negotiate at school, with peers, and with family. Participants (N 0 20) were adolescents (12Á18 years) living in Geneva, Switzerland. Findings show that youths' peer networks are multicultural and school and home are more likely to be monocultural. We can apply these findings to future research designed to ask youth about their identities within different contexts as well as to incorporate intercultural and multicultural identities into identity theories.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural immigrant youth identities in contexts of family, friends, and school

Bauer

Loomis

Akkari

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…Though identification with hip hop musical forms constitutes an important point of departure, and other visual signifiers are also stressed (e.g., clothing style and physical stance), the weight of the analysis falls on the indexical social work accomplished through culturally charged linguistic signs ultimately linked to "Black language" and hence, more indirectly, to particular sites of the genre's origins. This analytic strategy governs other recent work on hip hop and rap, even when authors also stress the role that linguistic variation-bilingualism, codeswitching, and sometimes musical hybridity as well-plays in the "processes of localization" that inscribe local distinction while marking fidelity to globally recognizable musical forms (Alim et al 2008, Mitchell 2002, Sarkar & Allen 2007. Condry (2006) discusses Japanese hip hop artists' use of visual and musical signs to express alignment with American rappers.…”

Section: Chronotopic Processes: Reconfiguring Time and Place Through mentioning

confidence: 92%

Music, Language, and Texts: Sound and Semiotic Ethnography

Faudree

2012

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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This review surveys recent research on language-music: the unified expressive field comprising sounded and textual signs whose segmentation into “language” and “music” is culturally constructed. I argue that approaching language-music semiotically will promote—alongside the discipline's emergent “auditory turn”—greater holism in anthropological practice if coupled to the joint effort of attending to textuality while decentering its primacy. I discuss recent scholarship that demonstrates, if often implicitly, the merit of this approach. I organize this work into three overlapping themes of active research: scholarship on chronotopes and soundscapes exploring processes that reconfigure time and place; work on subject creation focusing on voice, emotion, intersubjectivity, and listening; and scholarship on the social dimensions of object creation, including technological mediation, authentication, and circulation. I conclude by discussing future directions in research on language-music and the promise such work offers of furthering the call to broaden anthropology's holism while loosening adherence to its text-centered practices.

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“…Dialogic interchange at the global level can be seen operating in recent sociolinguistic research that examines the impact of global linguistic fl ows on local communities of interaction. As the language of hip -hop spreads, for example, it is taken up in local contexts, where it is refashioned or ' glocalized ' (Alim and Pennycook 2007 ;Pennycook 2003Pennycook , 2007Sarkar and Allen 2007 ). The forms of language associated with English and hip -hop therefore become hybridized (Bakhtin 1981 ) or indigenized (Appadurai 1990 ) as they mix with local languages.…”

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Discursive Constructions of Global War and Terror

Hodges¹

2010

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

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Hybrid Identities in Quebec Hip-Hop: Language, Territory, and Ethnicity in the Mix

Cited by 35 publications

References 15 publications

Intercultural immigrant youth identities in contexts of family, friends, and school

Intercultural immigrant youth identities in contexts of family, friends, and school

Music, Language, and Texts: Sound and Semiotic Ethnography

Discursive Constructions of Global War and Terror

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