TY - BOOK ID - 138570559 TI - Roc the mic right PY - 2006 SN - 1134243642 1280566957 9786610566952 0203006739 9780203006733 661056695X 9780415358781 0415358787 0415358779 0415358787 9780415358774 9781134243631 1134243634 PB - New York London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - African Americans KW - Black English KW - English language KW - Hip-hop KW - Popular culture KW - Languages. KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138570559 AB - Complementing a burgeoning area of interest and academic study, Roc the Mic Right explores the central role of language within the Hip Hop Nation (HHN). With its status convincingly argued as the best means by which to read Hip Hop culture, H. Samy Alim then focuses on discursive practices, such as narrative sequencing and ciphers, or lyrical circles of rhymers. Often a marginalized phenomenon, the complexity and creativity of Hip Hop lyrical production is emphasised, whilst Alim works towards the creation of a schema by which to understand its aesthetic.Using his own ethnog ER -