Grime and University: Language and the Negotiation of Black Cultural Alignment among British University Students

最近，人们对增加黑人在高等教育中的参与感兴趣，高调的污垢艺术家的干预加剧了这一点（例如，剑桥的Stormzy奖学金，BigNarstie在英国各地大学的污垢音乐和心理健康讲座）。尘垢本身作为一种文化形态对于年轻的英国黑人来说是非常重要的，它的传播超出了其生产的原始市中心，这意味着对于非城市和/或主要是白色地区的年轻黑人和混合种族的人来说，尘垢已经成为学习黑色含义的主要来源。但与此同时，尘垢提供的社会化和人格模式与大学提供的主流文化社会化形成鲜明对比。像Stormzy，Big Narstie和Akalaseek这样的人物将污垢和他拉近了距离，在美国，Hip Hopstudies在大学课程中已经确立。但在英国日常大学生活的平淡无奇的实践中，年轻人自己实际上是如何处理这两种形式之间的关系以及他们所提倡的主体性的？我的项目将用跨文化社会语言学和语言人种学来探讨这个问题，它是由我自己的经验和发展作为一个非城市的，混血的人导航的污垢和大学的潜在冲突的意义。

There has been a great deal of recent interest in increasingthe participation of Black people in higher education, andthe intervention of high-profile grime artists has intensifiedthis (e.g. the Stormzy scholarships at Cambridge, BigNarstie's talks on grime music and mental health atuniversities across the UK). Grime is itself hugely importantas a cultural formation for young British Black people, andits spread beyond the original inner-city sites of itsproduction has meant that for young Black and mixed-racepeople in non-urban and/or mainly white areas, grime hasbecome a major source of learning about the meanings ofBlackness. But at the same time, the socialisation and themodels of personhood that grime offers can contrastsharply with the mainstream cultural socialisation providedat university. Figures like Stormzy, Big Narstie and Akalaseek to draw grime and HE closer, and in the US, Hip Hopstudies is well-established in university curricula. But in theunspectacular practices of everyday university life in theUK, how do young people themselves actually negotiatethe relationship between these two formations and thesubjectivities they promote? My project will approach thisquestion with interactional sociolinguistics and linguisticethnography, and it is motivated by my own experienceand development as a non-urban, mixed-race personnavigating the potentially conflicting meanings of grimeand university.