Remix Multilingualism: Hip Hop, Ethnography and Performing Marginalized Voices [Paperback]

Remixing multilingualism is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act ofusing, combining and manipulatingmultilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual participants in the local hip hop culture of Cape Town. In globalised societies today previously marginalized speakers are carving out new and innovating spaces to put on display their voices and identities through the creative use of multilingualism.

This book contributes to the development of new conceptual insights and theoretical developments on multilingualism in the global South by applying the notions of stylization, performance, performativity, entextualisation and enregisterment. This takes place through interviews, performance analysis and interactional analysis, showing how young multilingual speakers stage different personae, styles, registers and language varieties.

Williams' book is a state-of-the-art document of the current scholarly interest in the sociolinguistics of global hip hop ... An important case study for students of language, culture and society. Journal of Sociolinguistics

Remix Multilingualismprovides deep insights into the local Cape hip hop scene while demonstrating its important relationship with global hip hop. Language in Society

Hip Hop messes up with language, it takes it to awhole nother level, where the poetic is mixed with the political, where the global and the local meet in a space ofm?tissage, and where the familiar is so wl-