Moving the crowd, 'crowding' the emcee: The coproduction and contestation of black normativity in freestyle rap battles

Discourse and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 422-439

  Alim, H Samy ^a   Lee, Jooyoung ^b   Carris, Lauren Mason ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

black normativity; California; discourse analysis; freestyle rap; hip hop; performance; race ethnicity; racialization; style; verbal art; verbal duels; youth culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960588241     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926510395828     Document Type: Article

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