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Pennycook, Alastair – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2007
This article addresses the relationship between the call for authenticity, its relocalization in other contexts, and the use of English. Hip-hop forces us to confront some of the conflictual discourses of authenticity and locality, from those that insist that African American hip-hop is the only real variety and that all other forms are…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Environment, Cultural Context, Social Attitudes
"The Rotation Gets Thick. The Constraints Get Thin": Creativity, Recontextualization, and Difference
Pennycook, Alastair – Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper explores the implications of looking at creativity in terms of repeated sameness rather than observable difference. Drawing on insights from hip-hop culture that focus on sampling as creativity, and looking in particular at philosophies of difference that make iterability and performativity central, this paper opens up a discussion of…
Descriptors: Intellectual History, Creativity, Language Variation, Applied Linguistics
Pennycook, Alastair – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2005
In this paper I suggest that as educators we need to understand that the spaces and cultures our students inhabit are to be found not so much in predefinitions of cultural background or in studies of classrooms as cultural spaces as in the transcultural flows with which our students engage. Thus, my argument is not only that, as Singh and Doherty…
Descriptors: Global Education, Popular Culture, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background