期刊名称：Samples. Notizen, Projekte und Kurzbeitr?ge zur Popularmusikforschung
印刷版ISSN：1612-8001
出版年度：2011
卷号：2011
期号：10
出版社：Arbeitskreis Studium Popul?rer Musik
摘要：In 2006, the deaf rapper Signmark captured the charts of his home country Finland
with an album that consists of a CD and a DVD with the first raps in Sign Language
worldwide.
The aim of the album is to gain visibility to the history and society of deaf people
and to position Sign Languages as legitimate languages on stage.
On the one hand, the hip-hop culture is often described as a culture of marginalized
groups. Rap lyrics are a site where languages and identities are refashioned
and where speakers of marginalized communities and languages increase visibility
of their languages and call language ideologies, politics and hierarchies into question.
On the other hand, (spoken) language and voice are seen as constitutive elements
of rap.
This article addresses the relationship between the call for authenticity in rap
which is strictly bound to the materiality of voice, and the use of Sign Lanugage,
which can be interpreted as the authentic use of the cultural and linguistic traditions
of deaf people.
