Hip Hop messes up with language, it takes it to a <i>whole nother level</i>, where the poetic is mixed with the political, where the global and the local meet in a space of <i>m</i><i>étissage</i>, and where the familiar is so worked-on that it becomes unfamiliar. Grounded in the multilingual, the ethnographic and the marginalized, <i>Remix Multilingualism</i> shows us the power of (Global) Hip Hop (Language) and why we need to have our ears to the ground and hear it. WORD!

Awad Ibrahim, Full Professor of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada

<i>Remix Multilingualism </i>is the book we've been waiting for ever since 1994 when the 'new' South Africa enshrined its eleven official languages policy in the Constitution. Williams' clear, scholarly vision and rigorous, ethnographic labor in the Hip Hop vineyards of Kuilsriver have yielded a master text which demonstrates the rich multilingualism of marginalized voices in South Africa (and by extension, elsewhere in the Global South). It is a major contribution to the fields of Hip Hop studies and Multilingualism and a must-read for scholars and teachers alike.

Geneva Smitherman, University Distinguished Professor Emerita, Michigan State University, USA

An exciting and rich multi-sited linguistic ethnography of marginality in the South and its multilingual (re)mediation. Quentin Williams has (re)mixed a tantalizing recipe for understanding how lives and selves may be materialized in and through Linguistic Citizenship.

Christopher Stroud, Senior Professor of Linguistics and Director for the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

This is a dope book. Quentin Williams - this Kaalvoet Laaitie vannie Lavis – nails the ways Hip Hop is a driving force in remixing multilingualism, doen your ding, shifting the raciolinguistic politics of multilingualism. This vital book is not only about remixing linguistic resources in South Africa but about remixing how we think about multilingualism. Read it and remix.

- Alastair Pennycook, Distinguished Professor of Language, Society and Education, University of Technology Sydney, Australia,

<i>Remix Multilingualism</i> takes readers into the heart of Cape Hip Hop's rich multilingual politics in a detailed ethnographic study that lays the groundwork for rethinking hegemonic understandings of' 'race', 'gender' and identity politics. The strength of Williams' work is that it pushes debates about 'coloured' and 'black' identities, as well as linguistic performances of these identities beyond the confines of what the academe has considered worthy of academic study in the South African context and beyond apartheid-era thinking about 'race', which endears in a country that remains racially divided.

Adam Haupt, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa