Maeve Eberhardt Lecture: White privilege, sonic Blackness, and linguistic appropriation in the music of Iggy Azalea
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- Linguistics
This work interrogates the linguistic construction of a hip-hop persona by White Australian rapper Iggy Azalea. The ‘hip-hop nation’ is a multiethnic, transnational community that originates from and privileges urban African American experiences. As such, the language patterns of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) are often recruited in order to perform hip-hop affiliated identities worldwide.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room