Remix multilingualism: Hip hop, ethnography and performing marginalized voices

Quentin Williams , Remix multilingualism: Hip hop, ethnography and performing marginalized voices . London : Bloomsbury , 2017. Pp. 231. Hb. £95.

Book Notes

In Remix multilingualism, Quentin Williams both broadens and connects two major areas of research: the sociolinguistics of multilingualism and hip hop studies. Based on a one-year, multi-sited ethnography of hip hop spaces in Cape Town, the book builds on the work of other hip hop scholars by bringing new insights into the multilingual Cape hip hop scene and its raciolinguistic politics. Williams demonstrates the ways in which young speakers' creative, locally styled multilingualism can stage marginalized voices and create new types of linguistic citizenship.

Williams introduces the reader to members of the rap group Suburban Menace, who perform regularly at Club Stones, a venue in the Cape Flats suburb...