Global pop, local language /
Cultural Studies -- Ethnomusicology-- & 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? G...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Cultural Studies -- Ethnomusicology-- & 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 U.S., drum and bass MCs in Toronto, and rappers, rockers, and traditional folk singers fro. |
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| Item Description: | In 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). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 352 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781604738032 1604738030 9781283434713 1283434717 9786613434715 661343471X |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
