Translocal style communities

This article addresses issues that lie at the intersection of debates about language, Hip Hop Culture, and globalization. Critically synthesizing a wide range recent work on foregrounding youth agency as evidenced by youth’s metalinguistic theorizing, presents an empirical account cultural theorists. are both participants theorists their participation in many translocal style communities constitute Global Nation. Highlighting agency, demonstrates engaging agentive act theorizing changes contemporary world they attempt to locate themselves local global. The concludes calling for linguistic anthropology globalization characterized ethnographic explorations theoretical focus popular culture, music, mass-mediated language central anthropological understanding processes global era.