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This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of advancing Hiphopographic research as a critical methodology with critical fieldwork methods that can provide a critical perspective of our world. The authors' focus in this volume is to present an anthology of essays that expand the remit of Hiphopography as an approach to the study of Hip Hop that is not only sensitive to the social, economic, political and cultural lives of Hip Hop Culture participants as interpreters and theorists, but one that continues to humanize the "whole person" behind the decks, on the mic, rocking on the linoleum floor, painting in front of a wall, and seeking that Knowledge of Self. This book will be relevant to Hip Hop scholars in fields such as cultural studies and history, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and ethnography, and race studies, while Hip Hop heads themselves will find parts of this book that represent their culture in ethical and informative ways

INTRODUCTION:Hip Hop's here, there… and everywhere: An introduction to Global Hiphopography.-PART I – NOW CHECK THE METHOD.-CHAPTER 1:Public Enemy, public scholarship: Hiphopography and the co-production of knowledge with Chuck D.-CHAPTER 2:Rappin' for rap's sake: Towards T.R.A.P. research for collective liberation.-CHAPTER 3:Recalculating…: Hiphopography and decentring scholarship.-CHAPTER 4:Relational hiphopography: Some notes on shared study .-CHAPTER 5:Homeboys: A photo essay on Delhi's underground hip hop culture.PARTII – FEMININE ENERGY.-CHAPTER 6:Decolonizing African Studies approaches to research on African women in Hip-Hop -- CHAPTER 7:Sisters in the hood: Re-centring gender balance in HipHop by creating safe spaces for women -- PART III – MIND, BODY AND SOUL.-CHAPTER 8:How I know, be, move: Embodied Hip Hop Pedagogies as teaching, research, writing, and living praxis .-CHAPTER 9:Flipping the academic discourse: Reflections on corporeal knowledge and gender negotiations in breaking.-CHAPTER 10:Graffuturism: Hiphopographic futures for urban art -- PART IV – FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET.-CHAPTER 11:Translocal hip hop aesthetics: Contemporary performances in Brazilian hip hop.-CHAPTER 12:Racialization and strategic / normalized otherness: A hiphopography of Danish and Finnish rap scenes -- PART V – POLITRICKS -- CHAPTER 13:Real and hypocrisy: The "moral turn" in Chinese Hip Hop music.-CHAPTER 14:Transidiomatism in Da Billas' Mafohlana rap song: The socio-cultural integration of Mozambican migrants in South Africa -- PART VI – THIS IS A JOURNEY INTO SOUND:CHAPTER 15:The mixtape as Hip Hop historiography: A systematic analysis of record releases of German 1980s Hip Hop.-CHAPTER 16:'My space trips from Chimoio': Notes about space and temporality in sampling.-CHAPTER 17:Black sound designs: Reflections on one Brazilian DJ's approach to a profession .

A major challenge facing South Africa is that of reconstructing a meaningful and inclusive notion of citizenship in the aftermath of its apartheid past and in the face of narratives of divisiveness that reach back from this past and continue to reverberate in the present. Many of the problems confronting South African social transformation are similar to the rest of the postcolonial world that continues to wrestle with the inherited colonial divide between citizen and subject. In this article, we explore how engagement with diversity and marginalization is taking place across a range of non-institutional and informal political arenas. Here, we elaborate on an approach towards the linguistic practices of the political everyday in terms of a notion of linguistic citizenship and by way of conclusion argue that the contradictions and turmoils of contemporary South Africa require further serious deliberation around alternative notions of citizenship and their semiotics.

"This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place. Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world, such as gentrified landscapes in Johannesburg and Brunswick, Mozambican memorializations, volatile train graffiti in Stockholm, Brazilian protest marches, Guadeloupian Creole signs, microscapes of souvenirs in Guinea-Bissau and old landscapes of apartheid in South Africa in contemporary time, this book explores how we are what we are through how we are emplaced. Across these examples, world-leading contributors explore how LLs contribute to the (re)imagining of different selves in the living past (living the past in the present), alternative presents and imagined futures. It focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging, precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds. The volume offers a reframing of linguistics landscape research in a geohumanities framework emphasizing negotiations of self in place in LL studies, building upon a rich body of LL research. With over 40 illustrations, it covers various methodological and epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how bodies engage with texts."--Bloomsbury Publishing

"This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency"--

"The culmination of decades of work on hip hop culture and activism, Neva Again weaves together the many varied and rich voices of the dynamic South African hip hop scene. The contributors―including scholars, activists, and the artists themselves―present a powerful reflection of the potential of youth art, culture, music, language, and identities to shape both politics and world views."